FRANCE'S FIRST REQUIREMENT
LESSONS OF THE PAST Received Monday, 12.40 p.m. PARIS, April 7. A guarantee against German aggression is tfie first requirement of ! French foreign policy. This was ! emphasised by the French Foreign i Minister, M. Bidault, in a speech at | LilJe in which he said: "Germany is ;.the .No. 1 problem of French history | in the past, the present and the 1 future. We cannot go on sacrific- j ing our finest men each genera- 1 tion." M. Bidault added that other re-j quirements of France's foreign | policy were, firstlv.^reliable alliances | and friendships, and secondly, a ! solid organisation for universal . peace within a system of collective ; security. France was adamant that the Ruhr must be treated as a political entity independent of Ger- , many. If a Germanic .government i maintained the right of sovereignity , over the Ruhr, then guarantees of security would be worthless. The ; experience of 1919, as emphasised •at Nuremberg, had shown that Ger- ! man rearmament began under the ; very eyes of the Allied Commis- ; sioners of control. j
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1946, Page 5
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