West European Advisory Committee to Free Europe twelfth session

But, of course, the reaction of Ulbricht was one of denunciatio~ and all the bigwigs of Pankow were soon warning the East European nations of the danger from E Bonn, of the ''lz'eason" of the social democrats, and of the "new German imperialism" and :Qrang nach osten! The most fascinating development was that the people in Warsaw and Prague became quite sceptical about these warnings from the Germ. [...] The most burning question in the Czechoslovak events was the new freedom of the press and of people working in the television and radio, and the extent to which this would be allowed by the Soviets. [...] The most feared by the Russians was the D third one, because this was the principle of the legitimacy of the power of the Party which was being put in question. [...] Referrin~ back to the report on the future tasks of the Alliance (which had set up the "double track" theory E of the Alliance, in which the Alliance would pursue both the defence programme and also a peace-making effort through mutual force reduction and so on in Europe), this had been ~uite successful in maintaining and increasing supporfll for the defence aspects of the Alliance in the countrie. [...] The right course for the West undoubtedly was to continue to give the best possible example to the Co1rrmunist states of the vitality of the spirit of liberty in the West.