Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general officers required to head Germany's proposed twelve divisions, two corps commands and supporting units (about 360,000 men) are to be picked not by the army but by a committee of "independent persons with democratic spirit." The choices will then be ratified by the Bonn cabinet and by the other five nations in EDC. Similar committees will select the remaining officers (250 colonels, 900 lieutenant colonels, 2,000 majors, 6,300 captains, 12,300 lieutenants), and "Parliament will have the last word...
...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
Last week U.S. authorities at Bonn ruefully admitted that they had not checked into the Peterses' past before assigning them the book in 1950, that they did not realize that Arno Peters was a Communist Party member. To them, he was merely a former journalist who had come with "high endorsements from eminent German educators." John ,O. Riedl, then chief of the education branch, had seen no reason for not approving him. Meanwhile, 1,100 copies of the book had gone out to public reading rooms throughout West Germany, and Peters had run off a large printing...
Debtor to Creditor. The German comeback could be measured in Bonn's own statistics. In 1948 the index of German industrial production stood at 56 (1936: 100); today it is 159. German exports increased about seven times in the past four years, and 75% in 1951. From being the biggest debtor in the European Payments Union (TIME, July 21), Germany has become its largest creditor, with a cumulative credit in September of $450 million...
...Bonn officials, anxious to convince the Allies that Germany cannot afford to shoulder a larger proportion of the West's planned defense budget, make much of the workers' poverty. Reporting last week to OEEC, they carefully explained that the Federal Republic is burdened with 1) 10,000,000 Soviet-zone refugees; 2) three occupation armies; 3) an $822 million reparations debt to the Jews; 4) an annual expense of $150 million to sustain West Berlin. Yet, as the nervous French and British often point out, the Ruhr's burgeoning capacity is more than enough to take care...