Word: bonne
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...barriers against U.S. goods and 2) take on a bigger share of the burdens of defending the free world and aiding the underdeveloped countries. This week, in pursuit of these goals, Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon are scheduled to meet with top West German officials in Bonn (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...West Germany's defense depends largely on keeping U.S. and British troops stationed on its territory, the Germans have doggedly insisted on trimming their share of the costs of maintaining and supporting them. In 1958, German troop-support payments to Britain were sharply reduced, and half the $600 million Bonn promised for U.S. defense forces in 1957 has never been paid...
...international gold crisis has made the problem increasingly critical. The disproportionate U.S. contribution to Western defense and foreign aid is a major part of the gold exodus that has lowered U.S. bullion reserves from $24 billion in 1948 to $18.5 billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel to Bonn...
Aware of Washington's rising anxiety, Bonn talks of a new, $710 million aid scheme for underdeveloped areas, to be financed partly by private industry. But this project is vague and undefined, and the government has not thrown its full weight behind it. Nor is there assurance that businessmen will go along; significantly, Wirtschaftsdienst, the influential organ of industry, recently complained that Germany's own internal expansion requires all the spare cash available. But, although Konrad Adenauer would be able to protest that another election is coming up, it looked as if the Germans might be hooked for at least...
Loaded Ointment. For months West German secret police had suspected that there was a security leak in the defense committee. Last week police agents trailed two suspected couriers to the Bonn Airport, seized the pair for questioning after one had booked passage to Vienna. In their luggage the police found a dry-cell battery and a tin of "Vasenol ointment." Inside the battery were microfilms of a secret, detailed West German defense budget and a secret list of all West German naval vessels. When a government agent tried to open the ointment, it blew up in his face...