ABSTRACT

The Paris Conference was able to solve a large number of problems to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. The day on which the last of the nine powers involved will have ratified and deposited these documents will mark, in retrospect, the historic moment finally ending for the German nation a period of National Socialist regime, war and occupation. The deliberations in the French National Assembly have shown what extraordinary psychological and political difficulties still exist on the path toward a Europe acting as a unit. It was the work of British and United States statesmen that brought about the conferences of London and Paris. The agreements reached there were made possible only by the assurance given by the United States to leave her forces in Europe as long as the present threat continued, and by the full participation of Britain in the organization of the Brussels Treaty.