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...choice of a chancellor will be up to Adenauer's ruling Christian Democratic party if Adenauer is elected president, and there was little doubt of Adenauer's election. Adenauer will still be at the helm when crucial East-West meetings take place this spring and summer...
Chronic Fear. The Poles, without Marshall Plan aid,* had little investment capital to put into the new area; they also had to pay cruel sums to the Russians. But above all, they had a chronic fear that the territories might become German again in some cold war East-West settlement (West Germany has publicly renounced the use of force to recover the area, but has not officially abandoned its designs...
...coordinating military aid to other areas as well as among member nations. The NATO countries, especially West Germany and the U.S. are relatively rich in capital, and might channel strategic aid through a NATO council. In its next few years, NATO should adjust to the new conditions of the East-West rivalry if it is to continue to advance the essential community of interests which bind the United States and the European nations...
Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano said, "We should be realistic and we should not expect too much of the forthcoming East-West conference in Geneva." But he too found "some optimism" in the fact that the Soviet Union has agreed to a foreign ministers' conference starting...
...Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must be two-sided, with the Soviets granting concrete concessions for every concession granted by the West...