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...neutralize Korea and exchange mutual assurances with the Communists against renewed aggression there. In Western Europe, allied diplomats concentrated on ways to reassure hesitant France that it can safely unite with Germany in the EDC (see below), while France took pains to tell Russia-as did Germany's Konrad Adenauer before them-that assurances can be negotiated to convince Moscow of EDC's peaceful purpose...
Hefty Boost. To allay French fears, London, Washington and Bonn were busy searching for ways to make it easier for Paris to lay the European Army treaty before the Assembly. Konrad Adenauer began deliberately advertising his willingness to make concessions over the disputed Saar, even though they might cost him support in the nationally minded Bundestag. Britain, which has guaranteed French security on five separate occasions since 1945 ("Ever since I was a small boy," said one bored Foreign Office man), did it again. A British minister, said Whitehall, will sit in on the debates of EDC's governing...
Like a boulder dropped into a still pond, West Germany's historic decision at the polls stirred the stagnating surface of the Western alliance. "This decision," said Konrad Adenauer in his hour of triumph, "cannot fail to have its effect on other European countries . . . Europe will now come into being." Across the Rhine, the land of Germany's historic enemies and grudging allies was washed by the ripples. "It is high time for France to take stock of herself and make in peace the recovery she was able to make in 1914 in the midst of battle ..." commented...
...house in even better order, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's victorious Christian Democratic Party had won a clear majority of 244 out of 487 Bundestag (lower house) seats, giving the Christian Democrats voting control even without the extra 63 votes collected by their old coalition partners, the Free Democrats and the German Party. No German politician, not even Hitler or Bismarck, had ever received such a vote of confidence from his people in a free election...
...alert police and hastily mobilized West German youth organizations thwarted them: they were picked up by the thousands and jailed or bundled back across the border. To help him win, the U.S. Secretary of State made a blunt appeal for an Adenauer victory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and unwittingly gave Konrad Adenauer's most threatening opponents, the Social Democrats, an issue they sorely wanted. It embarrassed Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition somewhat, but it came providentially late in the campaign...