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From the rostrum spoke the dry, spare, 76-year-old Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. Ordinarily icy and unemotional, Adenauer summoned up all the passion and eloquence he could muster. "It is the fateful hour of Germany!" he cried. "We are at the crossroads of slavery and freedom . . . A vote of 'no' on these treaties means 'yes' to Stalin . . . Germany's position is more exposed than ever before in her history. Germany is divided and torn, disarmed and defenseless She is overshadowed by a colossus that is trying to enslave and swallow...
Last week the Bundestag gave EDC -and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer-a rousing vote of confidence by agreeing (220-160) to debate ratification this week. German approval seems fairly well assured. The rest is up to France...
...some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
Actually, the election itself-a purely local scramble for 100,000 council seats-proved very little. Three facts stood out: 1) neo-Nazis and other right-wing radicals made gains, all of them proportionately small; 2) the established democratic parties-Konrad Adenauer's right-of-center coalition and the opposition Social Democrats-sturdily held their ground and their majorities; 3) the Communist vote diminished...
Longing for Power. Also apparent was a shift from the center to the right of Konrad Adenauer's three-party coalition. The Free Democratic Party (FDP), strongly nationalist, picked up more support than any other party; its show of "strength, chiefly at the expense of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, will probably ensure the nationalists a bigger say in German policy...