The pressure on the British government was increased in 1952, when the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made it clear that West German ratification of the European Defence Community Treaty was dependent on the release of German military figures.
Presset på den britiske regering blev forøget i 1952, da den tyske forbundskansler Konrad Adenauer gjorde det klart, at Vesttysk tiltrædelse af Vestunionen afhang af løsladelsen af tyske militærpersoner.