the French would agree to allow the Federal Republic an army of no more than half a million men; and Germany would join NATO as a sovereign state.4 When these treaties were ratified and went into effect, the German occupation statute would lapse and in all but name the Western Allies would have made formal peace with their erstwhile enemy. Allied troops would remain in the Federal Republic to guard against German recidivism, but as part of a European presence and by mutual agreement.
