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...came the most important reaction of all: the U.S.S.R. accepted a Western invitation to a Big Four conference of the heads of government some time this summer. The invitation had been issued from Paris, where the NATO Council had met to accept their new colleague, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer...
...nation. It had been restored to health by billions in U.S. aid, by a sympathetic occupation and, most of all, by the Germans' own astonishing energy. But its restoration to a place of trust in the Western world was primarily the achievement of one man: stern, formidable old Konrad Adenauer...
...Today . . . with deep satisfaction, the federal government can state we are a free and independent state," said Chancellor Konrad Adenauer into the microphone, in a little ceremony outside Bonn's Palais Schaumburg. "We are standing, free among the free, allied with former occupation powers in true partnership." No one cheered...
Critics often accuse Konrad Adenauer of being content with a small Germany based on his own Catholic Rhineland, plus Bavaria. Well aware of this sentiment, Adenauer told "the millions of Germans who are forced to live separated from us, without freedom and without justice [that] you can always rely on us, because together with the free world, we will not rest until . . . you live peacefully united with us in one state...
...long as Konrad Adenauer remains in control, such ideas will be resisted. Long ago, Adenauer made the massively simple decision that Germany's future lies with the West. Until 1957, Adenauer will have an absolute majority in the Bundestag. But, "Can a 79-year-old man guarantee anything?" asks the magazine Der Spiegel pointedly...