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West Germany gasped painfully last week as the Yalta documents arrived in time for the last stages of the debate on the Paris accords in the Bundesrat (upper house). Said Hesse's Socialist Minister President Georg August Zinn, attempting to make Socialist capital out of the chilling dialogue on German dismemberment; "The Yalta documents . . . show that it was not the will of one, but of all the Allied powers, not only to split Germany, but at the same time to merge the split parts into greater military and economic systems. I have a dark feeling that the issues discussed...
...West Germans went to the polls in Hesse and Bavaria. Adenauer's Christian Democrats lost some strength in Bavaria but kept control of the local legislature; in Hesse, they and other parties ended the Socialists' absolute control. Since the members of the federal Senate (the Bundesrat) are chosen directly by state legislatures, Adenauer thereby gained four Bundesrat seats, clinching the two-thirds majority he needs to ratify the Paris accords...
...Paris instructed its high commissioner in Germany to veto the amendment to the West German constitution, passed by the Bundesrat, to enable the Germans to rearm within EDC. Later, the French agreed to approve the amendment on conditions that would require a delay of four or five months in German ratification of EDC. The Germans jutted their jaws. Editorialized Hamburg's influential Die Welt: "If the French had intended to produce Europamüdigkeit [a state of being fed up with Europe], they could not have acted otherwise." The West German Cabinet bluntly told Paris that its conditions would...
Adenauer himself had .campaigned hard in Hamburg; far more was at stake than local issues. By winning control of the Hamburg Assembly, Konrad Adenauer also won control of Hamburg's three votes in the Bundesrat, exactly the number he needs to give him a two-thirds majority in the Federal Republic's upper house. Now he can amend the federal constitution, if need be, to ensure the legality of West Germany's participation...
Adroit and persistent old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer got the European Army treaty and the German peace contract through West Germany's Bundestag last March. Getting it past the Bundesrat (upper house) was harder. When he failed the first time, Adenauer announced coldly that he didn't need the Bundesrat's approval anyway. Soon a better idea appeared, and last week it came off. The Bundesrat took action, which, in Adenauer's view, at least puts it on record as favoring ratification. By a vote of 23-15, the upper house approved two annexes in the treaties...