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...wheel was Otto John, the expert in charge of all of West Germany's counterespionage. His disappearance behind the Iron Curtain last week shook the foundations of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government and jarred allied secret services from Berlin to Washington. And his motive for defection, or the device used to lure him across the frontier, provided the mystery of the week...
...Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside 5,000 Bavarian policemen and 3,000 frontier guards for a week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode boldly into the Soviet zone to help the local population bolster dikes. Later, Red army soldiers joined...
...first place, designed to bring about German rearmament without a revival of German militarism. Bonn would get self-government only by simultaneously agreeing to put its armed forces under supranational command. But while Bonn gave its assent, France fiddled with its approval, and left Chancellor Konrad Adenauer exposed to increasingly dangerous attacks at home for failing to win sovereignty for his people...
Mendès still intends to put something before the Assembly. But now at last, Konrad Adenauer does not have to stake his future on the whim of the French Parliament...
...that the French were talking of "alternatives" to EDC (which might require renegotiating the whole treaty with the other five nations). West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer decided the time had come to make his own position explicit and public. Despite Adenauer's repeated affirmations of unyielding support of EDC. France announced that it would send Foreign Under Secretary Guerin de Beaumont to see him about EDC "compromise," apparently under the illusion that Der Alte might still be cajoled...