The expellee-interest ministries were deliberately excluded from the 1959 nonaggression planning.

Evidence

The government prepared its initiative with care and tight secrecy. After Chancellor Adenauer had given his “explicit and unconditional approval” to the measure in late January, Foreign Office representatives introduced their nonaggression proposal to the working group responsible for coordinating Western policy for Geneva. … The total exclusion of the Ministries for All-German and Expellee Affairs, both of which harbored considerable sympathies for the expellee 110. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 200

Categorization

• QUESTION: Was tight secrecy the government’s standard avoidance technique versus confrontation when attempting rational correction against threat-hardened expellee beliefs? Track whether this exclusion pattern recurs or later backfires.