Show Conception of a Neutral Disarmed Germany Has Gone Out the Window The Big Three foreign ministers meeting in New York City prior to the session of the United Nations general assembly have taken some momentous steps toward strengthening western Europe so as to permit effective resi resistance resistance resist resist- tance t- t ance to a Russian move to spread communism communism communism com com- by force clear across that continent continent continent con con- to the Atlantic ocean One momentous step was announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment that the United States Britain and France will consider any attack against western Germany or against oc allied areas of Berlin as an attack upon themselves This is a cut clear-cut warning to Soviet Russia Rusia not to try any Korean adventures In German Germany It is the kind of warning which is going to make mae the men in the Kremlin think twice before launching any more of the like Hitler-like territorial grabs which aggressors of of whatever name have so often found profitable in inthe inthe inthe the past Russia knows for certain now that she can only take control of all Berlin or move on western Germany at the cost of a third world war There can be beno beno beno no limited objective aggression in Germany The second momentous step was the decision of the Big Three to increase the German mobile police force to men These will be trained and equipped to deal with any internal disturbances disturbances disturbances dis dis- in western Germany This mobile police force will be supplemental to the local German police forces While this is not the creation of a 3 aGerman aGerman German military force to be integrated into the western European military defense defense defense de de- de- de structure it is plainly a step in that direction French objections to the revival of German military power blocked the reestablishment of any true German army at this time although the question of such uch a German Gelman military force will be studied further by the three countries But the mobile police force might well be the nucleus for organization and training of what may in the future be a aGerman aGerman aGerman German defense force which would beable beable be beable able to help prevent Russian aggression further westward in Europe Whether we like it or not any plans for or against Russian expansion must include German military strength There can be no such thing as a neutral western western west west- ern Germany in the struggle between east and west Either Germany is going to be on our side or on Russia's side The facts of oC geography as well as international international international inter inter- national politics make that certain And if Germany is going to be on our side she had better be on our side meaningfully meaningfully meaningfully meaning meaning- fully with some concrete contribution in the way of proven Germany military capacity The really important point is that there is just no acceptable alternative to giving Germany a cooperative role to play in the defense of western Europe The conception of a neutral disarmed Germany was based on the belief that the east cast and the west would work to together together together to- to gether in reasonable harmony for world peace and progress That hope has gone out the window Russia will not permit Germany to tobe tobe tobe be either neutral or disarmed Russia is working f feverishly to bring Germany into the Communist camp She is al already already already al- al ready building a Russian pro-Russian east German German German Ger Ger- man army The alternative to bringing western Germany into the western camp as a full partner is not to keep western Germany neutral but to see all Germany in the Russian camp And that is not a pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant prospect for Europe or for America to contemplate |