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...human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn; dropped out of the clouds for a brief visit with Dwight Eisenhower in Denver; read a detective story in mid-Pacific and slept seraphically across the Atlantic...
Restrictions Voluntary. Campaigning last week in a provincial election in Schleswig-Holstein, Konrad Adenauer came out strongly for an end of the Allied occupation of West Germany and for unfettered German sovereignty. "We ask this," said der Alte, "for our national honor and our justifiable national feelings." Once Germany has its sovereignty, he said, it would apply for admission to NATO and consent to restrictions on German rearmament. The restrictions would have to be voluntary, for since the death of EDC not even Adenauer will agree to discriminations imposed by outsiders; the restrictions would also have to be real...
...same urgent agenda: to find a substitute for EDC that would safely rearm the Germans without losing the French. Their emphasis was on speed, for some new formula would have to be ready and waiting in the next few weeks before the Bundestag reconvened to lay German disappointment at Konrad Adenauer's door, before the Bevanite "No Guns for Huns" campaign seduced Britain's Labor Party into opposition to any German rearmament, before the U.S. got too involved in its fall election campaign, before France's Mendès-France could upset the applecart with another...
...State Department, with no plan of its own to offer, acted as if this were a problem for Europeans only. Talk of an EDC without France died almost as soon as it began. Konrad Adenauer contended that EDC might still be revived, but he sounded neither convinced nor convincing. Mendès-France proposed a looser European coalition that would include Britain, but Sir Winston Churchill (for all his high-minded talk of European citizenship in 1947) had said before, and last week said again, that Britain was unwilling to get too involved on the Continent...
...79th year, Konrad Adenauer, Der Alte of West Germany, was not as well as he looked: he had come back from the Brussels Conference plagued with insomnia, able to sleep only under doses of drugs. At Brussels, after the meeting ended, he had seen Mendès-France for an hour. Every word had hurt. EDC was dead. Mendès said. "But my French friends tell me that EDC has a chance in the National Assembly," said Adenauer. "They lied to you " Mendès had replied curtly...