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Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in London to return Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's visit to West Germany. On the visit's eve, the two countries settled their longstanding and awkward dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer came home a shaken man from Moscow in the fall of 1955. Under strong political pressure from his own people to reach agreement with the Kremlin, Adenauer bowed to Russia's demand for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bonn and Moscow without waiting for German reunification. In exchange, he won release of 9,626 of the estimated 100.000 German prisoners then still held in Russia. Adenauer became chary of negotiating, even of trading, with the Soviets...
...Meal to Digest. Europeans, even when awarding the Russians a victory, for the most part treated the whole subject as a game to be scored. West Germany's Socialists, busy agitating against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to equip the West German army with atomic weapons, saw the Russian announcement as another defeat for the U.S.'s "unwieldy foreign policy." Some British editorialists were convinced that Russia had outsmarted the West, and that Dulles' statement that the U.S. had considered renouncing tests itself just made matters worse. "A boxer who has just received a crisp...
Even before the final vote was taken, 1,000 workers walked out of the Henschel engineering plant to parade the streets in protest. A delegation from the Council of Protestant Churches called on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in an effort to persuade him to change his stand. Later, 2,500 cheering partisans jammed into Frankfurt's Kongresshalle to hear Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer call for unrelenting opposition on a nationwide basis. "The Bundestag has decided!" he cried. "But it is not too late. We must...
West Germany's Professor Walter Hallstein, 56, representing "Little Europe's" foremost industrial power, got the top job of the new European Economic Community. A former Frankfurt University rector who, as Under Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, ably negotiated some of Konrad Adenauer's most notable diplomatic accomplishments (the basic treaties with the Allies, the Saar treaty with France, Israeli reparations, Schuman Plan membership), Bachelor Lawyer Hallstein has won the full confidence of der Alte as a "good European," sure to work devotedly for the ultimate creation of a larger free-trading area that will include Britain...