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up to it and force these people back. This isn it the generalization that
it has no effect; but I think that if you back away from every controversy
because you feel that it is going to interfere with the harmony of legis-
lative and executive branches you may never get anything done.
MR. NITZE:
Wasn it there a sentiment in Congress, backed by sentiment in the country,
just generally in favor of Germany and doing something for Germany at
that time which made it difficult for any Congressman or Senator to
really battle this thing in principle?
MR. ACHESON:
Yes; but if you were seeing ghosts under the beds, you could have seen a
lot in this thing.
MR. JESSUP:
But the battle wasn't so much on the contractual arrangements with Germany
TAUMAN,
and the new status of Germanyx as the attempt to attack you on the new
commitments under the NATO protocol. That did worry us; but you had to
RECORDS
ADMINE
4s
face that. It seems to me it's worth mentioning also that the Administra-
tion moved with extraordinary rapidity on that. You remember the figures
were sent to the Senate on June 2nd) only a week, really, after they'd been
signed;
we
had
Kexkax
all
that
difficulty
of
getting
the
texts
over,
and
we
had
to
send
up
a supplemental up documents. We wanted to get them in, and we got them
in; and the Senate acted by July lst which was rather a record of opera-
tions.
MR. ACHESON:
Well, from then on there was practically an end of any sort of U.S.
governmental activity, or any activity, or any sort of forward
movement in NATO or Europe. Everything marked time during the election
and
period, until the inauguration, After the inaguration for months and
months, while the new administration was trying to get itself squared
away. And this, I think, is a most critical moment in history, and the
misfortune of having that happen at that particular time was very great.
Think
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