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Polish and Czech States; both want the final settlement 
to create sufficient confidence in its permanence to 
banish fears of new conflicts.
 
     In the following paragraphs it will be the
differences between the aims of the two groups that will  
be discussed and not their points of agreement. It will 
be taken for granted that both groups equally desire to 
see an Allied victory and the differences arise as to 
the purposes to which that victory should be put.
 
     3. The forms of settlement sought in Group A are
 
that, after a military victory, Germany Should be completely
 
disarmed and that her future should be determined by the
 
victorious Allies. Many exponents of this point of view
 
believe that after the separation of a new Poland and
 
Czecho-slovakia from the present swollen Reich, Germany
 
should be broken up into several independent areas. This
 
school of thought tend to concentrate all its attention
 
upon Europe and do not show any inclination to realise
 
that the Allies may need to make certain concessions to
 
assist towards a satisfactory world settlement.
 
THE MAINTENANCE OF ALLIED FORCES.
 
4. In essence Group A believes in a dictated, peace
 
and must therefore accept the view that the Allies would
 
need to face the responsibility for policing Europe and
 
maintaining the peace.
 
     It is therefore an essential part of Group A
 
policy for the Allies to maintain after the peace armaments
 
large enough to ensure a predominance in Europe.
 
     What would be the attitude of the Allied countries
 
to such a policy?
 
     In order to answer this question it is first
 
necessary to consider what order of military commitment
 
would be involved.
 
     Some Group A adherents may maintain that once
 
Germany has been defeated, the forces necessary to ensure
 
Allied predominance would-not be large and that the United
 
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