West Germans are enjoying a remarkable prosperity that would be weakened by unifying with their poorer brothers in Communist East Germany. This is one reason why West German politicians (who would as soon denounce motherhood as reunification) privately concede that the reunification issue is not as real as the noise it makes.
Even so, there are always politicians ready to demand a new, direct approach to Moscow. For them, Chancellor Adenauer found a timely and devastating answer last week. It came from France's Premier Guy Mollet, as he and Adenauer talked over the Saar settlement. On his recent trip to Moscow, Mollet...
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