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...after any number of Genevas-on German ties with the West. But how would the rest of West Germany stand now that the second Geneva conference had dashed all German hopes of reunification in the foreseeable future? Last week West Germany's Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano, 51, addressed himself to that question in as eloquent a speech as the Bundestag has heard in its six years...
...federal government will continue to pursue a policy of German reunification in close and trusting cooperation with its allies," said Von Brentano. "It rejects any thought of endangering this infinitely valuable friendship and the support it implies by any hesitancy, inconstancy or lack of frankness. It knows very well that the fate of the German people would be sealed if it tried to barter the confidence and friendship of its allies for the sympathy of the Soviet Union, which has made it plain, at least for the present, that it wants to deny the German people a peaceful future...
...Brentano then addressed himself to the Soviet Foreign Minister: "Mr. Molotov may be sure of this: though he once managed to sign a treaty with Messrs. Stalin and Ribbentrop, and thus to seal an alliance between two totalitarian systems, he will not be able to bring about such a treaty again with the federal republic of today or with the reunited Germany of tomorrow...
...Cheap Way. Next day, making his first Bundestag speech since his illness, 79-year-old Chancellor Adenauer wound up the debate with a brief warning against a "policy of weakness." But the forceful pronouncement of Von Brentano, a figure who has been gaining political stature by the day since he took over the Foreign Ministry six months ago, ended the chatter among some of Adenauer's coalition members about holding "talks" but not "negotiations" with the Russians. Even the Socialist opposition leader Erich Ollenhauer, who like many Germans would like to find a cheap way out if there were...
...Minister, wispy Fritz Schaffer, the penny-pinching Bavarian banker who did most to make the German mark sound. At his age (67), Schaffer would probably be only an interim leader until some younger, stronger man could emerge. For the long pull, the betting now favors Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 51, or Trade Unionist Karl Arnold, 54, Minister President of West Germany's biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia...