Word: counterweights
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...before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs: as a passionate defender of EDC and its supranational ideal, Gerstenmaier might not be flexible enough...
With its coal mines (17 million tons annually) and its steel furnaces (3,000,000 tons), the Saar is the counterweight France wants to offset the industrial might of West Germany. With the Saar, France's steel production is near West Germany's (13 million tons v. 16 million); without the Saar and with the Saar added to West Germany, France would have little more than half of West Germany's output (11 million tons v. 18 million...
...proper like a kernel in a nut, would permit German rearmament and still be acceptable to France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...
...blood & dollars theme-which could not be raised very loudly while the U.S. was fighting in Korea. Also. France now faces a painful decision on EDC (see INTERNATIONAL), and the feeling is prevalent that a pull-out of her troops in Indo-China would help her to counterweight the German "menace" in Europe...
...another triumph for Templer. But the long-range implications are tremendous: in the projected British Dominion of Malaya, which presumably will include predominantly Chinese Singapore, the balance of power will lie with the Chinese population. Thus Britain quietly envisages adding a Chinese country to the Commonwealth, a counterweight in troubled Asia. When they fully understand this, the Malays may be expected to complain. Templer is working on an answer to that...