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Konrad Adenauer saw eye to hypnotic eye with Charles de Gaulle, but Ludwig Erhard from the start tried tostare le grand Charles down. He did not have a chance. When it came to the question of grain prices in the Common Market, Erhard held out for twelve months, but finally caved in. Anxious to share in the West's nuclear arsenal, der Dicke pinned his hopes on U.S. zeal for the multilateral force, only to have the Americans lose interest and leave the Germans out on a limb. Last week, as Erhard arrived in Paris for his latest meeting...
...last time the two had met in Bonn, De Gaulle had pointedly kept Erhard waiting a quarter of an hour while he reminisced with Adenauer about the solidarity of the good old days. But now as Erhard's black Citroën pulled up before De Gaulle's 14th century cháteau at Rambouillet, the German flag was smartly run up the crenelated tower looming over the courtyard, and there was a smiling Charles himself waiting with outstretched arms for the Chancellor. And in some six hours of talk that followed, De Gaulle was all paternal charm...
...accurate, Rusk's words touched off a storm. In Bonn, the Free Democrats' Bundestag Vice President Thomas Dehler warned that Germany was being "sacrificed" to Atlantic policy. Christian Democrat Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel cried that Germany might "go it alone" if pushed too far by its allies. Erhard himself was reported upset and worried, and amid celebrations last week for former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's 89th birthday, met with his Cabinet to discuss the "new situation...
These were the hard facts of life. To make them more palatable, Lyndon Johnson added to his State of the Union message a specific reference to the continued goal of German reunification. It did not say anything specific, but Ambassador George McGhee hurried to reassure Erhard that the U.S. had in deed not forgotten the Germans. It was just like old times. Happily, the West German government's spokesman called in reporters to say smilingly that all the "false ideas" about U.S. policy are regarded as "clearly removed...
Neat Paradox. "All's well that ends well," said Erhard cheerily in Bonn after the Brussels accord, despite pained cries that he had capitulated. "It means new hope for all questions of political and economic integration of Europe." Still, the price for Erhard was high: he promised to pay German farmers some $2 billion in extra subsidies between now and 1970 to enable them to adjust to the lower price levels for their produce. That was enough, presumably, to keep the farmers happy at election time next September...