2: Foreign Policy and Rearmament
Introduced by Richard HISCOCKS
Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex
Since 1949 West Germany has been restored to a place in the Western Alliance and the international community, but within the Federal Republic there has been a conflict between those who admire President de Gaulle's conception of Europe and those who favour close links with America. A guide line of the Federal Republic's foreign policy has been the Hallstein Doclrine-a refusal to have diplomatic relations with any country that recognises East Germany. Now ' an agreement ' with Rumania suggests that the direction of West German foreign policy is changing. At the same time the whole subject of foreign policy has been complicated by the question of German rearmament.
Produced by Chris Cuthbertson
First broadcast on March 27