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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0002018124
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2010
• Case Number: F-2009-01320
• Publication Date: December 13, 1950

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2. French views on German role in European Army--According
to US Embassy Paris, French Foreign Minister Schuman de-
clared in a recent conversation with the German delegate to
the Schuman Plan negotiations that the French Government
is willing and anxious to create a European Army with a full
.and equal status for Germany. Schuman added that the forth-
coming conference to plan for the European Army would be
identical in basis and spirit with the Schuman Plan negotia-
tions and hence would provide for full and equal participation
by Germany. Schuman went on to explain that the gravest
danger to Europe was to have Germany in a position to play
the East off against the West and that therefore it was funda-
mental to French policy to achieve the full, irrevocable
political integration of Germany in the Western European
community.
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EUROPE
3> USSR. Fear of war ,rowing??US Embassy Moscow reports
"a real and growing. fear of world conflict on the part of
Soviet citizens who come within the limited range of Embassy
contacts. The Embassy infers that the "average Soviet
citizen," although badly informed, is aware that East-West
relations have been deteriorating and probably does not com-
pletely swallow the version promulgated in official. Soviet
propaganda. In this connection, the Embassy observes that
its personnel and those of other Western diplomatic missions
rarely encounter anti-Western feeling.
4. GERMANY.: Tentative plans on military contribution--In a
recent conversation with the US High Commission in Bonn,
Theodor Blank (the German Government official who is to be
charged with jurisdiction over Germany's contribution to a
European Army) said concerning Germany's role that he
envisages a unified European Army under a unified command
and with standardized equipment and uniforms. Blank esti-
mated that it would require from two to two and a half years
to furnish a battle-ready contingent of 12 divisions o Blank
stressed his intention to avoid any recurrence of the Prussian
military tradition and pointed to the importance of achieving
the maximum civilian control, over German armed forces.
Analysis of Communist intentions--The US High Com-
mission in Berlin estimates, in an analysis of overt Com-
munist statements and actions since the Prague conference
of Satellite and Soviet Foreign Ministers in October, that the
Communists are anticipating the eventual rejection. by the
West of the' Prague terms for German reunification and are
planning in that event to establish an bail-German" con-
stituent council of their own. The Commission points out
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that an "all-German" constituent council, Communist-
inspired and Communist-controlled, would offer unlimited
possibilities for manipulation, including the unilateral
establishment of an "all-German Government."
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
5e INDIA: Estimate of Communist capabilities --US Embassy
New Delhi discounts the ability of the Indian Communists to
exploit fully the current world crisis growing out of Chinese
intervention in Korea. The Embassy believes that it would
be entirely logical and in keeping with over-all Communist
strategy for he Indian Communists to attempt such action.
The Embassy does not know of any specific Communist direc-
tive to this effect, however 9 and doubts that such instructions
could be covertly disseminated by the Indian Communist
Party, because it is at present riven with internal dissension
to the point of being almost completely ineffective.
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