Recommendation by the British Foreign Office on the question of German rearmament (May 1950)

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In May 1950, the services of the British Foreign Office draft an internal note on the dangers of premature rearmament of West Germany and call on the British delegation participating in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Four (the United States, France, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union) not to raise this question in the forthcoming debates.

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Source: The National Archives of the United Kingdom, [s.l.], Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office, FO. Policy regarding defence of Germany and western Germany's contribution towards defence in event of Soviet aggression, FO 371/85048.

Copyright: (c) The National Archives of the United Kingdom

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