... democracies. This meant the support of the European integration process. In the 1950s Bonn's foreign policy was influenced by two fundamental controversies. On the one hand there was the struggle between the Christian Democratic government and the Social Democratic opposition about the priority to be ... to build up steel production in France. American General Clay was thinking that to utilise German resources for European recovery, not by stripping of coal and industrial machinery as the French wanted, but by restoring its output, consuming fuel and raw materials within Germany, and al...

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