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...West Germans within a Western European Union. Next week, at a full-dress NATO meeting in Paris, the Germans will be accepted as partners in the Atlantic Alliance. The biggest remaining snag-Franco-German differences over a Saar steel mill-was ironed out last week when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met in Bonn and disposed of the awkward details...
Germany's 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer at first refused to believe the news that Churchill had quit. "All of us in the free world need his advice and will always seek it," he said...
...weeks later, Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, and Bert L. Vallee, associate in medicine, joined five other Eastern scientists in withdrawing from a scientific conference slated for April 7 and 8. They wrote President Schmitz charging that his action had "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars...
Counter Device. The Communist pretext was that the highways linking Berlin to West Germany had been damaged by frost and overuse, and that the extra tolls were needed for their repair. "Sheer chicanery," snapped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who recognized the new Red pressure for what it was: an attempt at revenge for the decision to rearm West Germany. Adenauer ordered 18 new trains to be put on the Berlin run (so far, the Reds have not interfered with railroad traffic). West Berlin set up a special fund of $250,000 to pay the truckers' extra tolls...
...with substantial quantities of food, coal and machinery, and the Communists would like to increase this trade. At week's end, the Bonn government casually let it be known that it was far too busy with the question of increased tolls to be bothered about increasing trade. Said Konrad Adenauer: "It won't last. They need East-West trade too badly...