§ 97. Mr. Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what clauses in the Paris Agreements on German rearmament are intended to ensure that the section of the Potsdam Agreement which lays down that German militarism and Nazism would be extirpated and the Allies would take in agreement together, then and in the future, the other measures necessary to assure that Germany never again would threaten her neighbours or the peace of the world, is observed.
§ Mr. TurtonThe Paris Agreements are not intended to reproduce the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. As my right hon. Friend explained to the House on 17th November, the action of the Soviet Government has prevented the functioning of the Potsdam system. Under the96W terms of the Paris Agreements the rearmament of the German Federal Republic will take place within the framework of Western European Defence arrangements and under a system of international controls designed to prevent any member nation from having independent recourse to the threat or use of force.