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...France and Britain, editorialists busily explained that no one had seriously expected much of the "spirit of Geneva" anyway. West Germany's tough old Konrad Adenauer, who dislikes uncertainty, heard the results almost with relief: reality was better than illusion. He briskly ordered the stalled rearmament program pushed through, so that West Germany could have four divisions by the end of 1956. On his behalf, a spokesman declared gratefully that in Geneva the West had "made the cause of reunification their own." But Socialists and members of the FDP, even some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, raised...
...some Western commentators, among them Walter Lippmann, acted as if Russia was bound, in time, to have its way in West as well as East Germany. The assumption was that once old Konrad Adenauer leaves office, other West Germans would be so keen for reunification that they would barter away their present freedom and prosperity just to be part of a poorer and Communist-dominated Greater Germany. But West Germany's preference for its own way of life is much deeper than one old man's will...
After four weeks in bed with a severe bout of bronchial pneumonia, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was up and about again. The old man (he will be 80 next January) was still confined to his villa overlooking the Rhine, but he called in his Cabinet officers and kept up with the news from Geneva (see above). Doctors had advised a three-month vacation in Sicily, but der Alte would have none of it. "A leave of convalescence does not seem required," said a bulletin from Bonn...
...Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had been explicit. "Do not ask us for what we cannot give you," he had told West Germany's Konrad Adenauer. "We cannot give you unification, and we cannot do anything to help NATO." The Russians were vividly aware that, under any unification terms the West would accept, they would lose the part of Germany they now hold. "How could we explain to our people the presence of a defeated Communist government-in-exile in Moscow?" asked Khrushchev of his visitor...
...Saarlanders' choice became clear, the champions of Europeanization were first to dramatize its impact. Saar Premier Johannes Hoffmann, figurehead of the Saar-for-Europe movement, promptly resigned. From his sickbed in Bonn, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, urgent advocate of a vote for Europeanization, was said to be "deeply disturbed," and he called his Cabinet into emergency session to consider what to do next...