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AN APPROACH TO THE CFM 1) Our major premise is that our concern is with the future of Europe and not with Germany as a problem by itself. We are concerned with the integration of Germany into a free and democratic Europe. We have made and are making progress to this end with the part of Germany which we control and we shall not jeopardize this progress by seeking a unified Germany as in itself good. If we can integrate a greater part of Germany than we now control under conditions which help and do not retard what we are now doing, we favor that; but, only if the circumstances are right. 2) Just as the unification of Germany is not an end in itself, so the division of Germany is not an end in itself. If, for instance, Russian troops were unilat- erally withdrawn, we would not attempt- as an end in itself--by force to keep Eastern and Western Germany apart. Again the test is whether the unification can be achieved under conditions which help and do not retard the unifica- tion of free Europe. 3) Similarly, the presence of Russian troops in East Germany is not desirable. It is undesirable. So we do not seek to have these troops remain because their presence