Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1957.
Has not the right hon. and learned Gentleman forgotten part of what the then Foreign Secretary—the present Prime Minister—said? It is true that according to HANSARD he began by stating that the military alliance of N.A.T.O. had halted the westward march of Communism under
…the protecting shield of American atomic power. Now the Soviets are halted in the West.… We believe that they may, with steady pressure upon them, be forced sooner or later to give ground in Eastern Germany.
Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman repudiate those atomic power politics to make Eastern Germany safe for Dr. Adenauer?