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Spoiled Campaign. The day after Malenkov fell, Britain's Nye Bevan made an uncharacteristically dispirited defense of his attempt to delay German rearmament and was defeated in a Laborite caucus by a decisive 23 votes. In Wrest Germany, where Konrad Adenauer had been forced to take to the hustings to argue for rearmament, the Chancellor now felt reassured. "The Russians should have waited just one more month," said Adenauer, "then they would not have spoiled the Socialist campaign so completely...
Railroad Briefing. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, returning last week from three weeks' rest near Baden-Baden, summoned aides to his special railroad car to brief him on Moscow's proclamation, and on the situation it was designed to exploit...
...been an ordeal, Malskat testified. No one wanted to believe him, and for good reason. The recent 700th anniversary of Lübeck's St. Mary's, centered around the "restored" church murals, had been the civic event of a generation, attended by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and celebrated, with 2,000,000 special anniversary stamps showing a detail from Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside the church. Only scattered patches...
...coexistence. N.Z.Z. is in no hurry to print breaking news, and its tabloid-size format is dull. It prints titles instead of headlines, and its circulation (70,000) is small. Yet it is must reading for such diverse political experts as Pundit Walter Lippmann and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
After Stalin. On the camp loudspeakers, Vorkuta learned of Stalin's historic stroke. The religious knelt to pray. Others sang joyously. "A 'political expectation' spread through Vorkuta," says Konrad Michailowski, onetime major in the German 16th tank division, who arrived in the camp in 1950. "Everyone thought that Malenkov, whom they called 'Uncle Zhorka,' would change things. Things didn't change and Vorkuta became ripe for trouble...