SALUTE McNAMARA SCHEME»
Frankfurt .
ok statement made by U. s. ‘Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at one of the congressional hearings about counting on the Germans. to play a far greater role in areas outside Europe, caused some astonishment in the country where U.S. troops are ‘still stationed as. a "protective". measure. a. “Writing in the illustrated Stern [eirewlation almost. two. million], Sebastian Haffner declared:
"What. is proposed by McNamara would give a completely new content to the alliance between America and the German Federal Republic, and, in ny ‘Opinion, a content that is unacceptable to the Germans....If the Americans are now telling us, ‘Sorry we couldn't do much for you, but from now on you can do something for us. Get out and fight our wars in Asia, Africa and South America! Germans, to the front!'.-- this is really going too far. We already know. that — in several unhealthful regions of the world, Americans are involved . in wars -~ wars that used to be called colonial. wars =-- but why should this be our worry? Thank God, Germany has been out of the colonial business since 1919. German soldiers are not Ghurkas and the German Federal Army is no foreign legion. We have not gone in for that!".
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