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...liaison officer rushed a copy of the occupation statute to the deadlocked constitutional assembly at Bonn, with an urgent appeal from the Western Foreign Ministers to accept it and get cracking with their draft of a German constitution...
...German politicians at Bonn went into a huddle, announced that they would withhold "official" comment for several days. But it was already clear that the Socialists -who had made the loudest demands for a more centralized Western German state" -were bitterly opposed to the new agreement. Berlin's Socialist newspaper Sozial-demokrat called the statute's stringent restrictions on German sovereignty "reasons for sorrow...
...chief advocates of such a match met on a recent Saturday at a tea party at Godesberg, just down the trolley line from Bonn. The host was Christian Democrat Leader (and Bonn Delegate) Andreas Hermes, who later stated his views: "We Germans have been maneuvered apart . . . We can no longer watch silently and passively developments that would lead to further splitting of Germany." The guest of honor was 76-year-old, grey-haired former (1933-34) German ambassador to Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny, otherwise (and accurately) known as Germany's "Pink eminence...
...impossible to do both. If we want the former, we should not talk of democracy, we should not encourage political parties, we should see that the Germans won't produce more and live better than the rest of Europe. And we should never have gone to Bonn. But if we want to see Germany a free and stable country, we must take the risk of giving Germany's democrats-such as they are-a reasonably strong government that can command some respect and get things done. To move in that direction the Bonn Assembly must succeed; it must...
Kurt Schumacher's deputy at Bonn, burly Carlo Schmid, probably the ablest political leader in West Germany, told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform...