GERMANY TO JOIN DEMOCRACIES

Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1949, Page 5

GERMANY TO JOIN DEMOCRACIES

Move To Conserve And Consolidate The Future Peace Of Europe

Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 11. The Big Three Western Foreign Ministers ended their two* day conference on Germany today and issued a communique de*. claring their intention to support and foster the progressivf. integration of the German people into the. European community TThe Ministers announced that they were putting Germany on trial to show her peaceful and demoeratic intentions. The Ministers were aware of the heavy responsibility placed upon them to conserve and consolidate the peace of Europe and of the. world. They desire.d to assert their determination to meet th£t responsibility with both firmness and humanity — ^firmhess ih' their resolve that no country should be permitted to menace the peace and security of its neighbours, humanity in their recogni? tion that lasting peace could be found only in a closer associa* tion of the peoples of the world.

Since both the great world wars sprang from a militaristic spirit emanating from within Germany, and since the countries represented by the Foreign Ministers were. in oecupation of German territory it was natural that their consideration of the problem of peace in Europe should have been directed largely towards Germany's relations with Europe, the situation in Germany, and their policy in respect of Ger- ! many. The Foreign Ministers reaffirmed their policy as expressed in the Oecupation Statute of giving to the Federal Republic a wide area of free determination in the conduct of German affairs in the area which under the statute would grow wider as the administration of the Federal Republic gave confidence that it was proceeding towards the establishment of a free, demoeratic and peaceful Germany.

At the same time the Ministers considered it appropriate to support and foster the progressive integration of the German people into the European community. Their decisions were based on the expectation that the Government of the German Federal Republic would give further evidence of its pacific intentions and of its sincere desire to associate itself with those nations devoted to the cause of democraey and justice under law and peace. Consequently the Ministers had given their High Commissioners eertain instructions and powers which would permit them to achieve the Ministers' aims. The British spokesman said that on the problem of recognising the Chinese Communists and aiding Tito against Russia there was a wide exchange of views. The Ministers were not called upon to do anytliing concrete with those problems.