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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 11, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Dutch concern over lack of western unity According to
US Ambassador Chapin at The Hague, Dutch Foreign
Minister Stikker feels that the world situation is "gradu-
ally deteriorating" and that insufficient progress is being
made to. counteract this deterioration through "fostering
a sense of unity in the West," Stikker believes, in parti-
cular, that little progress can be made so long as Western
defense budgets are approved or disapproved on primarily
a national basis instead of being adjusted to the role of the
country in an over -all defense plan. Stikker urges that
an early meeting be held by the North Atlantic Council in
order to make a final decision concerning the allotment
of defense roles in the collective western community.
20 .Belgian Minister favors rearming of Western Germany"
US Ambassador Murphy in Brussels reports that Belgian
Prime Minister Eyskens has, in informal conversation,
expressed unequivocally the personal view that Western
Germany should be rearmed and that no further time should
be wasted in the "urgent situations" Concerning "French
emotionalism" in respect to Germany, Eyskens commented
that to think of present-day Germany as a source of aggres-
sive action against the Western Powers is absurd, Pointing
out that the question is not a sentimental but realistic one,
he asserted that Western Germany must be used as bulwark
against the "only visible danger," the USSR. Eyskens be-
lieves that Western Europe must have a minimum of 80
equipped divisions and that the defense of the area is im-
possible without German participation. Murphy stresses
that these views are personal to Eyskens, not the views of
the Belgian Government, but indicates such views are the
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private opinion of "other leading Belgians0
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