World Indivisible: With Liberty and Justice for All by Konrad Adenauer

Author:Konrad Adenauer [Adenauer, Konrad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000521078
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Germany’s Choice

There are three courses Germany can take. I do not say that there are three decisions to be made, but that, considered theoretically, there are three courses. One is that we join Soviet Russia. The second is that we join the West. And the third course is that we join neither, but stand on our pride and depend upon our own resources. Soviet Russia would like to see us take the last stand. I deliberately refrain from using the word neutrality, for that is no neutrality. A neutral country is one which has the power, if the need arises, of defending its neutrality against all comers. A country that survives only by the tolerance of others is not a neutral. Therefore we may as well cease using the word neutral or neutralization as applied to Germany’s condition under the Potsdam Agreement. Let us call things by their right names.

I must say a few words on what would happen if a reunified Germany would not join the West. In the last elections in Italy the Communist votes increased by 1.4 millions. In France the Communist Party emerged from the May communal elections as the strongest single party. And here we are, flanked by France and so near to Italy, and bordered on the east by Soviet Russia. In both France and Italy are these formidable fifth columns. We all know that propagandists directed from Soviet Russia are constantly at work among us, trying to undermine us, that over two hundred Communist front organizations have been uncovered.

The choices are perfectly clear, and we face them open-eyed. We want the integration of Europe, and we want to be allied with the West. For us there can be no doubts or scruples about that.

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