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...much warmer sound," said Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, speaking of the Big Three communique on Germany. But it did not have a very decisive sound. Its most important note was a flat announcement that the Big Three would consider any attack on Western Germany or on Berlin as an attack on themselves. This had in fact been Western policy for two years, but the black-on-white announcement heartened West Germany...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had said: "The most important single thing that needs to be done right now is for America to send more divisions to Europe. That would give Europe the courage...
Before High Commissioner John J. McCloy took off for the U.S., where he will sit in on the Big Three Foreign Ministers' conference scheduled to open next week in New York City, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer handed him two notes. They contained requests from West Germany which will be submitted to the ministers. In one note, Adenauer asked that the Occupation Statute be revised so as to give West Germany more independence. In his second note, Adenauer tackled the far more crucial question of West Germany's defense...
Military men and politicians had known all along that plans for Western Europe's defense made no sense unless they included a West German army. By last week Winston Churchill, Dean Acheson, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had publicly indicated that some degree of German rearmament was in the cards. But despite all these wisps of smoke, there was no fire...
Adenauer, like U.S. policymakers, argued for a limited but possible aim: Schumacher talked himself into the position of wanting all or nothing. After heated debate, the Bonn Assembly sided with Adenauer, voted 220-152 to join the Council. Said Konrad Adenauer exultantly, "Germany's road to Europe is now open." Wrote French High Commissioner Andre François-Poncet in a letter to Adenauer: "I am convinced [this step] will have as favorable results for your country as for the cause of solidarity among the European nations...