The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

Disarmament requires trust.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.