LONDON: After the war Germany must not be dismembered, writes the “London Times” on Friday. “Europe must find a way of organising and using, not of dismembering and eradicating, German capacity. A guarantee of future security and wellbeing will be found, and can only found by incorporating that unity in the broader unity of Europe.

“It is not open to serious doubt that forcible disruption of Germany by victors, or even active encouragement given by them to shorter forces of disruption that might appear in the hour of defeat would have the long-term effect of intensifying German unity and fortifying the German powers of resistance.

“To keep Germany disunited over a period of years would require a degree not merely of military control but of continuous and detailed administrative interference, which would soon strain resources and antagonise opinion of many Allied countries. Security for many years to come can only be assured by an organised preponderance of power, together with determination to use it as a safeguard of all that the United Nations have won for themselves and for the world throughout their present ordeal.

“In Europe that organised preponderance of power must be exercised primarily, though not exclusively, in the name of the United Nations by Great Britain and Russia....” — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, December 11th, 2018