Word: muste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Adenauer: "During the Nazi years I sometimes despaired of my people. But afterwards, I realized that much decency had survived. Something good can and must be made of the Germans...
This is the land which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer must, with Western help, lead to democratic order and freedom...
...Germany," he says, "must declare herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands for." Adenauer is a devout Roman Catholic, but his party and his cabinet include some Protestants, with whom he works well. Politically, he is a Christian Democrat. He was a firm anti-Nazi and is an equally firm antiCommunist. He has a profound distaste for socialism. He has told Americans: "To many people, socialism is all right, only national socialism is bad. I say socialism-if it runs its course-must ultimately become national socialism...
...Christian Democrats' official program contains some welfare state features; Adenauer himself has often said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...