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...formal recognition of a man they had so long reviled as an enemy, of a regime they had refused to recognize-was in itself bigger than anything that the visit itself was likely to produce. The Russians wanted to talk about formal diplomatic and economic relations between Moscow and Bonn, and to consider Germany's reunification only at the price of West Germany's withdrawal from the Western alliance. Adenauer had already agreed with the U.S., Britain and France to refrain at Moscow from any dickering on such terms. Adenauer had a slight hope that the Russians...
...terms. "I do not think it will suffice to outlaw war, to create security systems and to establish, so to speak, in a mechanical way, diplomatic, economic and cultural relations," said Adenauer. Two important Soviet deeds were necessary: ¶The return of Germans still imprisoned in Russia, said by Bonn to number 80,000 to 100,000. "It is an unbearable thought," said Adenauer, "that more than ten years after the end of hostilities, human beings . . . should be kept away from . . . their homes. It is unthinkable to establish 'normal' relations so long as this question remains unsolved...
...East Berlin's landing field, Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl wrung Khrushchev's hand and anxiously inquired where the East German regime stood. Grotewohl had been alarmed by the Soviet invitation to Adenauer; he feared to be sacrificed in a Kremlin deal with Bonn. Khrushchev propped the puppets up, at least temporarily. "The score is one to nothing in favor of the [East German] Republic," he told Grotewohl...
...Allies insist that a reunited Germany must be free to make or refuse to make alliances. West Germany is already a member of NATO. The West recognizes that Bonn's signature cannot bind a united Germany, but expects that a reunited Germany would prefer to join the West. If it does, both Britain and France are ready to "take account of the legitimate needs of Soviet security," even possibly to guarantee that an all-German army should be no larger than West Germany's proposed twelve divisions. The U.S. is considering an arrangement by which the Western half...
...From the Bonn and Paris embassies, the U.S. delegation will borrow about 100 hands: stenographers and switchboard operators, code clerks and receptionists, chauffeurs and cooks. One unlisted member of the U.S. delegation will be White House Stenographer Jack Romagna, one of the fastest shorthand-writers in the world, who took notes outside F.D.R.'s bedroom during the frantic U.S. Cabinet meeting in the first crowded hours after Pearl Harbor...