Language Issue Responed


advocate the admission of Britain into the Common Market as the first step towards the creation of a United States of Europe that could be independent of both the United States and the Soviet Union, In his book "The Grand Design", published in 1965, he had flatly stated that "the Russians must be brought to the point where they are faced with the problem of deciding either to maintain the present unnatural status quo, with all the unforeseeable risks that it entails as far as tensions in Europe are concerned, or to accept a solution in which an autonomous Europe, allied with America but not under American control, and incorporating the whole of Germany, provides a western neighbour capable of giving accept- able guarantees in the sphere of military security and in which the German problem is no longer a cause of contention". Plain words, these. If Chancellor Kiesinger has not repudiated them as yet, surely it is because he does not see anything incongruous about them?