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...vulnerability of Russia's defenses, he toughly asserted that Russia was five years ahead of the U.S. in missile and space research, had the power to destroy the U.S. or any other enemy. "He came for no small talk," glumly conceded a Macmillan aide. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, though excluded from the summit itself, had nervously flown to Paris to urge his allies to stand firm on Berlin, came away reporting that "Mr. Khrushchev seems to be in a bad mood...
...West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer the Common Market is, above all, a means to the prime goal of his career: integration of Germany into Western Europe. For France's De Gaulle it embodies his conviction that Europe's future greatness can only be based on a permanent alliance between France and Germany; he also dreams of French leadership of the Rhine community of nations, which lie at the heart of Europe...
...earnest about arms limitation (a more realistic ambition than disarmament), there was at least a feeling that Nikita Khrushchev was concerned, like the U.S., over what is now called "escalation," or the proliferation of nuclear capability among other nations. One of the secrets confided to West Germany's Konrad Adenauer in Washington was the gist of a recent private message to Eisenhower from Khrushchev. There was even a hint in Washington that Khrushchev, too, like everybody else, would not like to hasten Red China's nuclear aptitude...
...London News Chronicle concluded that Strauss had been "more of a fool than a knave"; the Economist decided that West Germany's disregard of foreign susceptibilities was probably more lack of imagination than indifference. More serious was the widespread suspicion that the Strauss plan was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's way of serving notice that if the Western powers failed to stand up to Russia over Berlin, or otherwise took insufficient note of German concerns, West Germany would make political and military arrangements outside the alliance...
...Washington last week Secretary of State Christian Herter won headlines by saying that Nikita Khrushchev was hardening his stand on West Berlin. But so, too, though Herter failed to mention it, was West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...