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...that if the Soviets could launch Sputnik, they had an intercontinental missile, or at least were ahead in the development of one. That presumption was far from an established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still...
BONN, Germany, Oct. 18--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government will break diplomatic relations with Communist Yugoslavia tomorrow, diplomatic sources said tonight...
...other observations. It was a "disaster for mankind" that Communist China has not been admitted to the U.N. He was not pleased with Konrad Adenauer, the friend of NATO, apostle of free enterprise and foe of Communism. "The government of Western Germany," blurted Nye, "is coming more and more under the same economic and financial influence which helped to create the Germany of Hitler." As for the Middle East: "We believe that it is absolutely nonsense to imagine you can maintain peace [there] without an arrangement to which Russia herself will be a contributor." He did not point out that...
Having in his first two terms made peace and joined as partner with his Western neighbors, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last week turned his eyes eastward. The time had come, he told his advisers, to improve West Germany's relations with Eastern Europe, and the object most on his mind was Poland. Just 18 years ago the September invasion of the Polish republic by Nazi panzers set off World...
Strauss sent a driver to haul the reluctant general back, explained in equally tough terms that he himself often had to wait half an hour or more for his boss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and thought nothing of it. Then Strauss, who has a flair for the dramatic gesture to point a moral, sacked General Müller-Hillebrand and gave a one-word explanation of his action: "Insubordination." German newspapers seemed delighted...