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WEST GERMANY'S BOOM has reached point where bankers worry about bust. To check inflation, bankers have nearly doubled loan discount rate to 5.5%, started bitter fight with industrialists. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer says credit pinch threatens entire recovery...
...feeling that the West's response is inadequate was widespread last week. Editorialists from London to Rome to San Francisco brooded over it. Konrad Adenauer bemoaned the West's inability to speak with one voice (see below). Britain's Socialist leader, Hugh Gaitskell, visiting the U.S., complained that the West's reactions to new Russian tactics seem "less united, less certain and less clear" than they once were. The cold war may not have thawed, but its terms have changed. Too often the West seems to be answering a challenge no longer posed, or, at least...
...Konrad Adenauer's office in Bonn's Schaumburg palace was festive with lilacs last week. The old Chancellor himself, his craggy face and steady hands still brown from his Swiss vacation, looked fit and relaxed in a grey flannel suit as he discussed the problems of his country and his continent with TIME Correspondent James Bell...
...main point to be kept in mind is that possibilities will come from a variety of fields. Thus, in the past, there has usually been at least one outstanding foreign leader. Two years ago, it was Robert Schuman; last year it Konrad Adenauer. The CRIMSON suggests that this year Secretary-General of the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold is likely to win an honorary degree...
...Britain's great wartime leader looked a figure who already belongs to history. In contrast, Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, only a year younger, seemed almost youthful as he bustled about, looking solicitously to the welfare of his guest. Rheumy-eyed and bowed with fatigue, Churchill, at Lady Churchill's side, doggedly dragged his weight up the 23 steps into Aachen's city hall, putting on a brave show for the 5,000 Germans gathered in the square to greet...