Translation of Statement Made by Robert Schuman Before the French National Assembly

9 TRANSCATION THEMAN STATEMENT CONC RWING GERMANY SERVICE" RECORDS 'NATIONAL AND MADE BY M. ROBERT SCHUMAN BEFORE THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY "Today, there is no German army, not even the beginning of one. With our Allies we are occupying Germany, and all of Germany. "I have heard talk of evacuation, but who speaks of evacuation? I have been questione about this. I say to you quite frankly: as a representative of the French Government and of France, I do not want to envisage this eventuality. "I do not want (I turn towards my friend Mr. Louis Marin who is so vigilant in this domain) I should not like, even by undertaking certain conditional and limited studies, to give the impression that we envisage, that we might envisage, any withdrawal of troops whatever. "Secondly, there is the disarmament of Germany. "In 1920 and in the following years, this disarmament was an obligation imposed on a Germany controlled by the Allies. Today it is an incontestable reality. "From the point of view of the manufacture or arms, I shall quote two figures. On the list of munitions factories to be dismantled there were 325 factories. At the present time, 270 of these factories, that is to say 83%, are completely dismantled, destroyed, put out of use. The rest will be dismantled in a few weeks. No factory of this type will be excepted. "After the First World War, the factories were not destroyed. The destruction of the existing armaments ha d been prescribed, the manufacture of new armaments had been forbidden, and, as I said a moment ago, allied control was exercised over an unoccupied Germany which had thus evory opportunity to render such a control illusory. " Here