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McCloy's toughest assignment was to persuade Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to accept the German Peace Contract and EDC, without which Western Europe would not trust the Germans with arms. When war broke out in Korea, the Pentagon called him home and announced that it wanted a German army within six months. McCloy said no; the development must be slower, else European unity would be imperiled. For weeks of table-thumping debate, McCloy and his sly, dry wit seemed to be everywhere at once: chivvying nervous Frenchmen who feared German rearmament, rebuking truculent Germans who seemed always to want more...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer urged the upper house (Bundesrat) of Germany's parliament to hasten the job by considering only those aspects of the treaties that lie within what he said was its proper sphere, i.e., protection of states' rights within the new Federal Republic. A resentful Bundesrat, after a mere 15 minutes' debate, voted unanimously to ignore his appeal, and to debate the entire treaties, paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, it declared, it could not possibly discuss either treaty until the Federal Constitutional Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of German rearmament-a decision not expected...
Hesitations. Second thoughts, haggles, reservations, foot-dragging and doubts were not confined to the French. In West Germany, Kurt Schumacher's Socialists and some of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's own government coalition used the French hesitations to reinforce their own. They want one more attempt to talk German unity with the Russians before the line dividing East Germany from West solidifies like the line that divided North and South Korea...
First to sign (because Germany-Al-lemagne-was first alphabetically) was leathery old Konrad Adenauer. He scratched his name on 17 different documents. Next came Belgium's Paul van Zeeland and France's Schuman, who obliged sound photographers with a running commentary: "We are now about to sign the mutual guarantee between EDC and the United Kingdom . . .We are now signing the NATO guarantee." Italy, Luxembourg and Holland followed. "Put some light on De Gasperi," shouted a cameraman, and there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers...
...rostrum on their shoulders. His physical courage inspired his followers; his violence inflamed them. The Socialists polled nearly 7,000,000 votes. But it was not quite enough. The Christian Democrats polled slightly more. Not to Kurt Schumacher, the fierce and dedicated Socialist, but to slow, methodical Konrad Adenauer, the 73-year-old conservative Catholic from Cologne, fell the task of organizing the new West German state, Schumacher gave battle from the start...