Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace contract" (not a treaty) will be signed with Germany if the Bonn government agrees to contribute troops to the European army and to share the Ruhr's coal and steel under the Schuman plan. The peace contract would go far toward restoring to the Germans full rights over their own affairs. There would be certain safeguards. The Allies will retain the rights 1) to station troops in Germany, though these would become defense forces instead of occupying troops; 2) to settle all questions about Germany's frontiers, precluding any attempt by Germany to make separate deals with...
...France's proposals and concessions that agreement turned. Schuman won his argument for the Pleven plan of integrating German troops into a supranational European army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...
...Received Special Envoy W. Averell Harriman, who got back from Teheran (and side expeditions to Belgrade, London, Paris and Bonn) optimistically hoping that a cooling-off period might lead to resumption of the stalled British-Iranian oil negotiations...
...same time, along the 500-mile curtain between East & West Germany, western border guards halted all freight, depriving the Soviet zone of a daily inflow of $238,000 worth of western goods, among them badly needed iron and steel products. Backed by the Allied High Commission, the Bonn government refused to ratify a new trade agreement between East & West Germany until the Communists stop interference with West Berlin traffic...
...Bonn, for the provisional capital it was originally intended to be, looks remarkably permanent. It quietly attracts hardworking, talented men from all over western Germany. The work of parliamentary committees and cabinet ministries has become impressively competent...