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TRUMAN
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S. NATIONAL SERVICE" July
ARCHIVES AND
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Social Democrats urged that the Federal government should
give closer study to the Soviet note of March 10, calling
for a German peace treaty, in order to determine whether
it offered a "genuine chance" for negotiation with the
Soviet Union. Adenauter replied that it had been established
an Nate
by the Bundestag that the primary aim of West German policy
was the reunion of Germany in freedom and within a united
Europe. He said that the Soviet Union, as indicated by its
note, wished to reduce Germany to an inferior status and
that the note falsified the provisions of the Potsdam agree-
ment regarding German frontiers. He stated further: "With
all our strength we must seek reunion with the help of the
Western allies. " Ollenhauer, acting leader of the Social
Democrats, expressed the view that "the only peaceful way
to reunion" was "through the unity of the four occupying
powers," and stressed that "nothing must be done to hinder
or encumber the unity of the four powers on German reunion."
A government resolution approving the policy of Adenauer
on reunion and on the contractual agreement was passed by
the government majority.
Adenauer and the Allied High Commissioners resumed their
negotiations on April 4th and continued them on the 9th.
A communique stated on the 9th that "excellent" progress
had been made.
On April 28th a spokesman for the Allied High Commissioners
expressed the "official hope" of the High Commi ssioners
and Adenauer that, as a result of their meeting of the 28th,
the contractual agreement would be completed by May 20th.
Opposition to limitations of sovereignty under the contrac-
tual agreements was expressed by the coalition parties of
the Federal government in early May. The chairman of the
parliamentary group of the German party stated on the lst
that his party would never give their votes for "a second
Versailles, II and the Free Democratic party demanded on the
same day that the Occupation Statute be abolished and that
"allied interference in German affairs be made impossible.'
Revisions of the agreements requested by the government
coalition parties were submitted ty Adenauer to the High
Commissioners on May 13th. It was reported on the next
day that allied negotiators had agreed to reword several
provisions in an attempt to overcome objections.
On May 16th the federal constitutional court at Karlsruhe
refused to grant an interim injunction, applied for by the
Social Democrats, which would have barred Adenauer from
signing the contractual agreements until the court had
ruled on the constitutional question of whether the agree-
ments involved a change in the Basic Law of the Republic
and would thus require a two-thirds majority for ratification.
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