ABSTRACT
The partition of Germany has come about not because of any internal German dissension, but because of a conflict among the four great powers. It follows therefore that Germany is vitally interested in an easing of the East-West conflict and the establishment of conditions under which the four great powers can come to an agreement concerning German unity. On March 25, 1953, the Government of the Soviet Union announced that it had established relations with the so-called German Democratic Republic on the same basis as with other sovereign states. The Soviet declaration cannot, however, in any way alter the fact that there is, was and will be only one German state, and that it is exclusively the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany which today represents this German state which has never perished.
