Word: konrads
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...more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers of disarmament. A large part of this need -as reflected by Germany's Konrad Adenauer-stemmed from Russia's successes with the Sputniks, which had encouraged Europe's neutralists and embarrassed the U.S.'s most solid friends...
Denmark's Hans Christian Hansen, another Socialist, echoed the Norwegian line. Then West Germany's tough-minded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer spoke up. Despite the fact that the Bulganin notes talked vaguely of a neutralized Germany -a prospect that is anathema to Adenauer-the West German Chancellor was no longer prepared to accept the U.S. lead in the matter of East-West negotiations. Said he: "I would see no objection to attempting to inquire through diplomatic channels from the Soviet government what precise conceptions form the basis of these proposals...
Demonstrated Need. Clearly, canny old Konrad Adenauer was thinking of the widespread reluctance of Europe's voters to have missiles on their soil unless they were proved absolutely necessary. His implied intent: NATO should demonstrate that they were necessary, by making one more attempt to negotiate with the Russians. Hastily the U.S. delegation set to work reconciling its differences with its allies...
...Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic should not be too dogmatic about terms for the new, neutralized reunified Germany. "Nothing could be more foolish on the West German side than to let vindictiveness, intolerance or political passion block the road. The long period of Communist rule in Eastern Germany will have left strong marks on the structure of life there . . . There is no reason why many of them should not be taken account of, as facts, in any future settlement...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of domestic repercussions, hoped to avoid any immediate consideration of missile bases on German soil, and told Dulles so. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...