BACK TO BACK AGAIN,
German there should be no form of outside super- On to ensure that the elections were free. Between these two sets of conditions there has not been, and there could never have been a reconciliation. And so there has been no agreement in Berlin on how to stick Germany together again. Perhaps the Western Foreign Ministers are disappointed, or perhaps they had expected this result. Mr. Molotov, at any rate, shows no sign of being disappointed or of having Worked for any other outcome. East and West will now, tPresurnably, turn back to back in Berlin again and attend to the multifarious problems waiting for them inside their own sPheres of influence in Europe. But for the Germans, and in r ..cality for the Four Powers themselves, it is not as simple as t_aent. . As the years go by and the failures in international inn gotiation mount up, the division of Germany becomes more remote. There the Germans, the unification of Germany less c_-Me. There may have been a time when Western Gcrmany _ould have been tucked securely under the Western wing and Was have been merely grateful for the refuge. But if there va.s .such a time, it has passed. With the new strength and how, Germany will re-unite. There have been alarmist reports that the failure to agree on unification at Berlin will be followed by new violence in the east, and, in Bonn, by imme- diate disillusion with the West. Both these predictions are almost certainly wrong. But the four Foreign Ministers can rest assured that they have failed, not to reunite Germany because this will happen in the end, but to decide for them- selves how dermany will be reunited.
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