On 24 October 1950, the French daily newspaper Combat expresses concern that European integration will entail West German rearmament and deplores the risks inherent in such a policy.
In this draft note to René Pleven, President of the French Council, Jean Monnet outlines the scope of the plan for a European army and defines the place of Germany in a united Europe.
In January 1951, the Metz Communist weekly newspaper Le Patriote Mosellan warns its readers of the dangers of German rearmament and conveys the fears of people in the Moselle département.
On 9 December 1949, the daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort comments on the debates between the Western Allies regarding the rearmament of West Germany and particularly focuses on the French viewpoint.
Le 17 mars 1952, le journal du Mouvement européen néerlandais Nieuw Europa commente le réarmement de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (RFA) dans le cadre d'une communauté européenne de défense.
Note from Louis Scheyven, Director-General of Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, to Paul van Zeeland, Belgian Foreign Minister, on the stance to be taken by Belgium if the Federal Republic of Germany should join NATO.
Given the threat represented by the numerical superiority of the military forces of the Soviet Union and its Allies on the European continent, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera emphasises the importance of rearming and integrating West Germany into the defence system of Western Europe.
On 1 September 1951, the Gazette de Lausanne gives reasons why it believes that the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) should participate in Western defence.
‘How did you manage to get this far? Thanks to agreements ...’ On 10 May 1953, the satirical Soviet magazine Krokodil deplores the dangers which would face France in the event of rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
