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...return for economic and political advantages. Western Germans claimed that the mines were German property--they belonged to the Third Reich--and that France had no right to make the treaty until a general European peace settlement. Both Kurt Schumacher, leader of the opposition Socialist Party and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, head of the Christian Democrats, complained. The Chancellor said, "German faith in the Allies has been severely damaged," be threatened to keep the State out of the Council of Europe...
...World?" Last week Germans were aroused and enraged by a report that France had signed with the French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...
...Eastern Germany, a drive was under way to force clergymen into the Communist-run National Front. Konrad Cardinal von Preysing, Roman Catholic bishop of Berlin, struck back by putting the National Front under episcopal ban. The Red press angrily attacked the prelate as a "gladiator for American imperialism...
Bargain Sales. Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government at last set up a committee to study means of reducing unemployment. There were two general solutions: pump-priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) for critically needed housing, and thus re-employ hundreds of thousands of construction workers. The other solution was to let the goods pile up on shelves until prices dropped to the point where customers could buy more. But the trade associations refused to let prices...
Bonn's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer finally apologized to Paris for Dehler's sound-off and minimized the whole incident. The Frankfurter Allgemelne soberly observed: "With what satisfaction the mighty boss in the Kremlin must have observed the goings...