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OCR Page 1 of 3AN 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erally withdrawn, we would not attempt- as an end in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
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