UN General Assembly
1957

53. The question of collective security is closely connected with that of disarmament. As a State situated in Central Europe, Czechoslovakia is directly concerned with the achievement of this aim in Europe. The events which took place last year have shown that the problem of all-European security, to which the Czechoslovak delegation has already drawn attention at previous sessions, has become even more urgent at the present time. The situation in Europe has been further aggravated in the past year. In the territory of West Germany, more and more United States atomic bases are being established and the West German army is being feverishly built up. It is not by chance that fascist organizations are reappearing in various forms in West Germany and that former Nazi officers are again commanding the armed forces of that country. According to a statement made by Mr. Strauss, the West German Minister of Defence, in October 1956, thirty-one of the thirty-eight generals of the new German army served on Hitler’s general staff. At the same time, increasingly open threats are being made in the Federal Republic of Germany against its eastern neighbours.