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University Daily Kansan Thursday, October 19, 1961
European Unity Based on Germany
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
PARIS—The French Foreign Office lies along the tree-lined Quai D'Orsay on the Left Bank of the Seine.
The old stone building, with its majestic staircases and huge, high-ceilinged rooms, still bears bullet scars inflicted by the Germans in World War II.
But it is a measure of a changing world, that in the office presided over by Foreign Minister Maurice Couve De Murville one thought takes precedence over all others in any consideration of the Moscow-generated Berlin crisis.
That is that come what may, the West Germans must remain allied with the West.
This single dominating thought was the basic factor behind formation of NATO and the common market.
It has been a keystone of President Charles de Gaulle's foreign policy.
And it was in these same interests that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer placed European unity even ahead of German reunification.
And it is that unity which Khrushchev now, using Berlin as a symbol, is determined to destroy.
THESE ARE more than mere ideals. For the French take the practical view that a prosperous West Germany, confident of its allies, is one thing. A West Germany without faith in its allies and its economic structure threatened by a creeping totalitarianism would be another.
In the latter case, the West Germans might very well make their own adjustment to Communism and Khrushchev's battle would have been won.
This was the thinking that dominated the decision to send U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson hurrying to West Berlin after the Communists threw their wall across the divided city.
IT ALSO was the factor which made the Western Allies risk possible dangerous incidents to send 1,400 U.S. troop reinforcements plunging across Communist East Germany along the autobahn to West Berlin.
But these were temporary steps which in no way eliminated the
basic weakness of Berlin's military and economic position.
They cannot be constantly repeated for the sake of German morale.
Therefore, in the eyes of the French, whatever negotiations are held with the Russians, the basic consideration must be stability for West Berlin and West Germany without damaging concessions.
BACK OF THIS lay the French distrust of the Gromyko talks in Washington and New York.
Back of this also lies De Guelle's demand that final NATO decisions rest with the Big Three, The United States, Britain and France, for without these three there is no alliance.
And that is why we may see more U.S. troops living under tents along the Bavarian forward wall this winter in what the Germans call the "Siberia of Germany."
"Bad for business," a hotel man said.
"The fault of Roosevelt and Stalin" said another.
Three weeks of travel in West Germany, including nearly a week in Bonn and another in West Berlin, convinced this correspondent that the German people outside Berlin were sleep-walking, in fact hoped that this talk of crisis was all a bad dream which eventually would go away.
Now a week in Paris which has included talks with high government and NATO officials leads to much the same conclusion but reached by a different avenue.
In Germany, the feeling is of a country still numbed by defeat in two world wars, a divided nation in which West Germans feel that they have not been wholly accepted back into the family of nations.
To Discuss Chemistry
Charles Kulier, graduate student in chemistry, will discuss the "Chemistry of Dilimide" at the organic chemistry colloquium at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 233 Malott.
No action has been taken yet against the KU students who vandalized Lawrence property Saturday night at the Senior Stomp, Donald K. Alderson, dean of men said last night.
Action Still Pending In Weekend Prank
"It's too early to tell what will be done." Dean Alderson said.
Several KU students tore down "no parking signs" at the Big Barn, Route 1. The Sheriff's office had installed the signs earlier in the day to make sure no one parked there.
"Apparently, that did not make any difference," Sheriff Fred Broeker said.
Sheriff Broeker had the cars which were parked in the spaces, hauled-away.
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