BONN GOVERNMENT CIRCLES GLOOMY DAY OVER FRENCH STALLING OF EDC-

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02914663
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2022
• Case Number: F-2022-01257
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Fsderal Republic)
SUBJECT Bonn Government Circles Gloomy Over
French Stalling of C.
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During Chancellor Adenaueris visit in Turkey,
with the ChanoellorOs chief collaborators and
the creation of the West German Republic.
Political Director of the Foreign Office, Anbaesedor
tary head of Blank's Defense Ministry, Lt. Gen. Adolf Reueinger, and Hans-Joachia
von Nerkatz, the anti-nationalist leader of the conservative Deutsche Partei who
is Adenauer's best assidtant in-all RUropean natters.
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confidential conversations
gloomier than ever since
among others with the
art Blankenhorn; the milt-
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2. The above-named three men told l[hat the Allies unwittingly were uwraiding (b)(1)
Adenauer's prestige and influen e
his own people. Opinion was mounting in West (b)(3)
Germany that the Chancellor has been backlog the wrong horse by sekLng vain efforts
to come to terms with the French. They all fear that even the : when it coaes
to make a choice, would always side with the French. Blankennorn still beleves that
t..1c French would hasten t ratlf7 EDC if put face to fact with an alternative which
they would like even les., than ratification and which they would not 1)�, able to
;-'vent--such an a "Spaniah or Japanese acreenentn with qnd a grea-
ment.with Germany. But Blankenhorn added that 40111d never resort to that
solution because public opintAl was sentimentally and traditionally tied to the
French and also they were afvuid of a Frenoh-Soviet alliance. Biankenhorn con-
eidered Bidault a real convert to RDC and liked his answers to Jules Mochib zr.uzious
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arguments in the Foreign Affairs Ctimmittte of the National Assenbly but thoue,n:
thit Laniel, bent on preserving his Cabinet, would refuse to part with tne
Gaullists. Dlaniamekorn also said that his negotiations with Francois-Poncet on
the Saar were making headway when suddenly Maurice Schumann arrived ir Bonn and
cut talc, s insng that Germany Wept the Saar settletent as final
and not the-Peace Treaty. That clause the Bundes tag would here:
approve. Hence French stalling is effective in every respect.
3 Esusingor was the gloomiest of all.. He is nervous because if he lost another
six months, it would &Mount in his opinion to losing two years in the build-up
of the new irmy. Then, the officers and non-cons of the former army were grow-
ing too old. As se example, he told .ne that one of his best officers in the
Speidel outfit in Paris is about to quit at the insistence of his wife because
h* was earning only half of what he had been making in business and he saw no
prospect of obtainine a normal status in the army within a reasonable time.
4. Merkats was a little.more hopeful. He had just been to Paris and felt en-
couraged by his talks With Robert Sohuman, Rend Mayer and Henri Teitgen, but he
too thought that Mr. Dulles had ma4a a big tactical error by accepting an in-
vitation to attend the ler /astern Conference before any progress was achieved
on the ELM treatiee is thelreach Chamber. Markets also discussed what would
happen if A4smauer died. He said that would become a revolutionary event.
Power in Germany Would lie on the ground, and the future world depend on who
picked it up first. He thought a team of good men between 40 and 50 years of
age should be set up in &demos composed .of persons like Bogen Gerstenenier (CDU)
Franz Joseph Strauss (OW, Gerhard Schrooder (now CDU Minister of the Interior),
Josef 'gust (CDU, Miniaterialdirektor of the Economic Ministry), Merkatz, himself,
and perhaps the Socialist M.P. &ler who heads an anti-Marxist group in the
Socialist Party.
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