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Until recently, West Germany was largely content to let the U.S. and other NATO allies call the tune on East-West policy. Of late a militant, assertive new spirit has risen east of the Rhine. It is, in a sense, a new nationalism- not the unsavory kind associated with jackboots and lebensraum but a more civilized version reflecting the muscle and emotion of a strong, reborn nation...
...West Germany's rising chorus of protesting voices, none is more vehement than that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer himself. These days, he makes no secret of his deep dissatisfaction with Western leadership. Der Alte urged the U.S., through visiting Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to limit the scope of this month's 18-nation disarmament talks in Geneva; he fears East and West will start bargaining over Germany if the discussion of disarmament bogs down. If a deal emerged, it could mean some form of East-West "disengagement," which might well permanently prevent the Germans from getting nuclear weapons...
...started out as just another conference in the interminable, 17-year East-West round on disarmament. According to a rare joint U.S. Russian decision reached at the U.N. late last year, it would be a mammoth 18-nation affair, scheduled to begin in Geneva in March. For weeks nobody had given it much thought; then suddenly both East and West seized on the conference and tried to turn it into something else...
While the great East-West crises looked as bristling as ever, the world was learning more every week about the ideological issues that are pitting Communist against Communist. Perhaps it is Khrushchev, this time, who in effect is asking for an agreement to disagree amiably for a few months, a little moratorium while he puts his house in order...
President Pusey listed three main topics that leave the members asking, "What does the Christian do or say about this, and how does he help?" These issues, he said, were "the sudden independence of several nations unequipped know-how to run their own affairs;" the East-West conflict and the presence of nuclear weapons; and the frail development of international law organization...