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...demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted the Public Service, Transport and Traffic Workers Union (Soldiers Section) to begin recruiting in Bundeswehr barracks. That caused two top generals to resign (TIME, Sept. 2) and widened the fissure in the C.D.U...
...generals were angry with Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 53. Luftwaffe Lieut. General Werner Panitzki publicly charged that Von Hassel had delayed making needed improvements in Germany's F-104 Starfighter fleet, of which 61 have crashed, killing 35 pilots. Four-star General Heinz Trettner, the West German equivalent to the U.S.'s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went up in smoke after Von Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation...
...Social Democratic opposition as well as some dissidents within Erhard's own coalition sought to use the resignations to embarrass the Chancellor. They demanded that Von Hassel be fired...
...publicly backed up his Defense Minister, accepting his nominations for new commanders to fill the place of the retiring generals. For one thing, Erhard did not want to set the precedent of firing a civilian Defense Minister just because a few generals were angry with him. For another, Von Hassel, the former minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein, commands the Protestant northern wing of the Christian Democratic Union, and Erhard does not want to offend some of his staunchest supporters...
Last week, in conferences with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, President Johnson discussed the NATO problem at length. McNamara also held long consultations in Washington with West Germany's visiting Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel; U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was in Europe trying to sell the idea of a multilateral nuclear force (MLF), and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer injected himself back into the discussions with a visit to Charles de Gaulle to "try to clarify existing difficulties between France and Germany...