UN General Assembly
1968

131. But the changes that have taken place are not to everyone’s liking. There are politicians in Bonn who would like to recarve the map of Europe. Their main goal is to undermine the Potsdam Agreement and other allied agreements entered into during the war and shortly after its end, at a time when the narrow interests of certain circles had receded to the background and what was at stake was the post-war structure of Europe and the safeguarding of a lasting peace in Europe and beyond its borders. These were agreements not only among Governments but also among peoples. 132. The experience of the war and of post-war development did not, of course, pass without leaving any trace on those circles which now determine the policies of the Federal Republic of Germany. They also have learnt something but they have drawn their own conclusions; having attained their earlier goals, they have now started acting with more finesse.