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...Social Democrats were spurred to find a quick solution to the governmental crisis by last week's state election results in Bavaria, where the newly emerging far-rightist National Democrats polled a surprising 7.4% of the votes, winning 15 seats in the state's 204-seat Landtag. Most experts felt that many of the votes had been cast in protest against what the far rightists called "the mess in Bonn." The results served notice on the Christian Democrats and the Socialists that they must either organize a strong new government or run the risk of creating an increasing...
Shaky Coalition. North Rhine-Westphalia's voters-Ruhr factory workers, middle-class merchants and farmers-were to choose new deputies for the Landtag (state legislature). The election ended the C.D.U.'s control of the 200-seat legislature, reduced the party's seats from 104 to 96. The Free Democrats, who had hopes of boosting their influence, instead lost a seat for a new total of 14. The only gainers were the ideologically refurbished Socialists, who have attracted increasing support since they dropped Marxist neutralist slogans in favor of bourgeois appeals for prosperity, moderate reform and NATO...
...changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would be "Europeanized," i.e., granted political autonomy under the new seven-nation Western European Union, and continued in its postwar economic union with France. A commissioner, probably British, would oversee the Saar on behalf of WEU, but an elected Landtag of Saarlanders would continue to run Saar affairs. The Saar's 13 million tons of coal and most of its 3,000,000 tons of steel a year would remain French-controlled, giving France about equal balance with the Ruhr-rich West Germans in the European Coal and Steel...
...France's Premier Edgar Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only to put out a vague statement saying...
...renounce all claim to the Saar as German territory. Mendès conceded that any agreement reached would be provisional pending a final German peace treaty. But until then, Mendès insisted, the agreement must be "definite." There could be no agitation for return to Germany. The Saar Landtag must pass laws punishing anyone who wrote, spoke or acted against the agreement, making it as sacrosanct as the Swiss policy of neutrality (a Swiss may not agitate against neutrality...