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...Ungoverned Tongue. The unclear-est and perhaps the most confused of the politicians he aimed at was, curiously enough, his closest coalition ally. Dr. Thomas Dehler, who heads the Free Democrats, the No. 2 party in the Bonn government. Dehler is an old-fashioned liberal who hated the Nazis and admires Adenauer, but he has one disability: an ungoverned tongue. Dehler "can break so much china in one day that a whole government needs a long time to glue it together again," complained the Christian Democratic press service...
Confrontation. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer returned from the U.S. to find not only his opposition but leaders in his own coalition loudly complaining that he had given in too much to France on the Saar. Opportunistic Thomas Dehler, who had accepted the Saar accord in Paris on behalf of his right-wing Free Democratic Party, had changed his mind back in Bonn. There were elections soon in Bavaria and Hesse, and political profit to be made by attacking the agreement. Not to be outdone, the small Refugee and German parties began outshouting Dehler. Scornfully, Konrad Adenauer dressed...
...days later, Der Alte confronted Dehler and his FDP leaders in his office at Palais Schaumburg. In conciliatory fashion, he offered to convey to the French any points the FDP had to make. Experts were scheduled to meet to work out some details anyway, and the points could be brought up then. The FDP leaders emerged looking pleased. Exuberantly, Party Deputy Chairman August Martin Euler told newsmen that there were going to be new Saar talks with the French. "Reopening of Saar talks," said the headlines. No such thing, answered the French Foreign Office. Hastily the German Foreign Office sent...
...first murmurs began after the failure of the Berlin Conference to agree to a united Germany. Dr. Thomas Dehler, chairman of the Free Democrats, No. 2 party in the Adenauer coalition, asked pointedly: "Is it not necessary to enter into conversations with the rulers in Moscow and Peking?" Adenauer shushed him by calling such talk appeasement. But after target dates for EDC ratification by the French came & went without action, and the French government tottered feebly, the mutters in Germany increased. The German Chancellor's policy, said the critics, had gotten his nation nothing from either West or East...
Moscow Hint. The Russians did not let the debate die. Pravda quoted Premier Malenkov as promising that the Kremlin would "treat favorably" any West German approach. Dr. Dehler, boss of the Free Democrats, spoke up again last week: "Direct diplomatic relations between West Germany and the Soviet Union are absolutely necessary." A third party in Adenauer's coalition, the German Party, chimed in, demanding "full freedom of action" for Germany...