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...troubles cropped up in the strongest of U.S. alliances. Convinced that non-nuclear war is now possible in Europe, U.S. strategists want to beef up NATO's strength in conventional weapons. For the President the new doctrine meant long hours of convincing West Germany's change-wary Konrad Adenauer (see Foreign Relations) that the U.S. resolve to defend Berlin and Europe has not weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger...
...passed, the press duly noted that Jackie Kennedy presented an autographed etching of the White House for a Catholic benefit auction in New York. She showed up fashionably late for the opening night of the Washington Opera Society season, arm in arm with Adlai Stevenson and a daughter of Konrad Adenauer, and she announced that she had discovered, hidden away in White House storage, a gilt pier table ordered by James Monroe...
Aboard the plane that brought him to the U.S. last week, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looked apprehensive. A few days later, after three meetings with President Kennedy at the White House, the old man was smiling joyfully. In the interval, some weighty worries had been lifted from Adenauer's mind...
...issues raised by the trial of Adolf Eichmann reverberated. Granted that Eichmann was guilty ("the biggest of the murderers," West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called him last week), was his propaganda show trial a good thing...
West Germany's Social Democratic Party, regroomed in the dashing image of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, is already working hard to beat out Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats in next fall's national election. The Socialists' first big test of strength came last week in communal elections involving 40% of the West German electorate. The results were hardly encouraging...