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...protocols and decided that, bad as those consequences were, the acceptance of an EDC that would make a mockery of a united Europe was infinitely worse. The Netherlands' Johan Willem Beyen gave Mendes a direct answer: "I apologize for not being able to agree with the French proposals." Konrad Adenauer followed, looking grey, tired, and deeply suspicious of the facile Frenchman opposite. The 78-year-old Chancellor objected to Mendès' discriminations against German soldiers, but what he feared most was the possibility that the Frenchman was maneuvering for further delay in the hope of getting Soviet...
...Told West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that the Administration does not favor any bills now before Congress that would restore German property seized during World War II to that nation...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, riding so high as the year began, was now deep in trouble. Labor unrest was increasing (see above). France was threatening to upset his cherished EDC and, worst of all, the strange case of Otto John was haunting and hurting the old Chancellor...
...weeks Chancellor Konrad Adenauer remained silent about the strange case of Otto John (TIME, Aug. 2), though he knew full well the damage that had been done to the West and to public confidence in his own regime. Last week, speaking to his people by radio, he described John's disappearance into the Soviet zone as "shocking," but he insisted that the former West German security chief had no Western military secrets: "The damage he can cause is not so great as was thought at first." Adenauer freely acknowledged the error in giving so unstable a man so crucial...
...fear of a Nazi revival was the explanation John himself gave over the Communist radio, and it was a handsome propaganda gift to the Reds. It was also doubly embarrassing to Konrad Adenauer, for one reason at home, for another abroad. Extreme rightists and neo-Nazis in Germany crowed that Dr. John's defection proved that Germany could not trust any German who resisted Hitler during the war. Replied Adenauer: "Those who, out of love, for the German people, tried to destroy the tyranny are worthy of the highest honor." Abroad, Adenauer knew that talk of resurging German Naziism...