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Water over the Dam. Mikoyan seemed perfectly ready to accept the continued existence of a divided Germany, and at a big official dinner he even made a proposal about it. "How dangerous for Germany to follow its present path," he said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps destruction-for the German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal...
...self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies are needed, [and] sturdy allies need progressive economies, not merely to bear the burden of defensive armament but also to satisfy the needs and aspirations of their people...
...Keep it up-we're winning," cried the Laborite weekly Tribune. "Now Germans join great campaign!" Last week 40 prominent West German politicians, trade unionists, professors, authors and theologians issued a proclamation demanding that the government keep out of any atomic armament race and "support all efforts for an atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously...
Last week Strauss tried to cool British resentment with an offer to advance Britain $280 million against future German armament buying. Britain could use the cash to bolster foreign currency reserves, but such a "loan" was hardly a substitute for the funds it needs to help support its 60,000-man Rhine army...
What a thrill, after twelve years, to see a once familiar face in TIME, Dec. 30. I knew Byron G. MacNabb when he was a lieutenant in the Navy and I was civilian secretary to the officer in charge of the armament test unit of the Navy's Patuxent River station. We were both in the unit at the time they test fired the first rockets mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot...