Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn; dropped out of the clouds for a brief visit with Dwight Eisenhower in Denver; read a detective story in mid-Pacific and slept seraphically across the Atlantic...
...R.A.F. plane on a "Cook's tour" (the Foreign Office code name for his trip) of the six EDC nations. Starting at Brussels, where he and the Benelux foreign ministers reached "complete agreement" on a method of rearming the Germans, Eden flew on to Bonn where Chancellor Adenauer was waiting at the airport. This week Eden flies to Rome and Paris, peddling a made-in-England solution: German "adherence" to NATO, with "adequate safeguards...
...rearmament within a security system through negotiations with the U.S.. Britain and those powers that had ratified EDC. France was not mentioned, as though it did not exist. The Allies were also notified that West Germany would no longer accept the limited sovereignty previously agreed to in the Bonn contracts, but wanted "full and unrestricted sovereignty." In other words, gone would be the treaty curbs on rearmament and the reserve emergency powers that would allow the occupation authorities to intervene in West German affairs in case of a serious threat to democratic order...
...That France accept limited German-sovereignty as a sop to Washington, London and Bonn...
...Bonn's own candidates, and the West German government had suspected him for a long time...