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...Despite Red efforts to sabotage the German elections Chancellor Konrad Adenauer won a smashing victory and a clear mandate...
Five weeks after his landslide victory in the general election, Konrad Adenauer last week was re-elected Chancellor for a new four-year term, by a Bundestag vote of 304 to 148. His 156-vote majority gives Adenauer one of the strongest parliamentary mandates of any leader in Western Europe...
European Defense Community. Long after most European statesmen had written off the EDC plan for an international European army, Dulles continued to plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense...
...Dulles' explanations had such happy consequences. In his overwhelming desire to get his policies understood he occasionally forgot that some things not only go without saying, but are better left unsaid. At a press conference (TIME, Sept. 14), he said that it would be a disaster if Konrad Adenauer did not win the West German elections. This statement came too late to affect the elections either way, but it was a bobble none the less. At the same time, Dulles strongly intimated that he did not feel bound to hold to the pro-Italian Trieste policy which...
Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 77, finishing up a 16-day vacation ("It was very nice, but too short") at the Black Forest resort of Buehlerhöhe, got an enthusiastic send-off from the chief local physician, who praised his "superlative constitution and distinguished heart...