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ii)

different experiences of wartime,

European construction, East-West

relations, relations with US. (See la)

Franco-German relationship is

above.)

Thus any

dynamic partly because it is tense and

involves so many unresolved questions.

Our own, very real contributions risk

being taken for granted: but it would

be dubious diplomacy to manufacture

problems just for the sake of making

ourselves more interesting.

"triangle" is bound to have uneven, and

in part qualitatively different, sides.

France and Germany have had to make real

concessions of substance and manner to

each other even to achieve that degree

of coordination which exists between

them already. We cannot "muscle in"

without cost to ourselves. Scope for

improving both bilateral and trilateral

relations will depend in practice on the

resources we have available; our

willingness to devote them to schemes

whose bilateral or multilateral may be

clearer than their national logic; and

our ability to rally the whole

Government machine in support of such

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