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Among those scheduled to receive Doctor of Laws degrees at the final public ceremonies of the Bicentennial are Adlai E. Stevenson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left...
...Konrad Adenauer replied, matching concession with concession: West Germany would 1) pledge itself not to exceed the twelve-division strength laid down for it in EDC, 2) submit to controls, so long as they were not discriminatory. It was a good beginning...
...after- everything?" The ministers shooed all but one aide each out of the conference room and settled down to a tough brass-tacks bar gaining session. The result was a compromise plan proposed by Dulles and made acceptable to the French by a generous new pledge from Konrad Adenauer. West Germany, he promised, would "never have recourse to force to achieve reunification [of Germany]." The Dulles-Adenauer compromise provided that: 1 ) Germany would agree to make no ABC (atomic, bacteriological and chemical) weapons, build only enough conventional weapons to arm its twelve divisions; 2) NATO would set minimum force levels...
West Germany reacted with scorn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made plain that he will accept controls on German arms "only if others are controlled too." He said he favored the plan sponsored by Britain's Anthony Eden: full sovereignty for Germany and simultaneous membership in the Brussels Pact and the NATO alliance...