Word: rearmament
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...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...
...other issues, also, Der Spiegel's cockiness has hardened into habitual choler. The magazine is more often against than for; it opposed NATO, European union, West German rearmament. Augstein's editorials have frequently been critical of "rigid" U.S. foreign policy, but Der Spiegel approved of the U.S. stand on Suez, argued that the more "fluid" U.S. foreign policy that resulted lessened the danger of war and improved the outlook for German reunification...
...Atoms for Peace Program," his great efforts toward world disarmament, and the frequent good-will tours in which he has sent members of his Cabinet and of his family: You do not mention the achievements of the settlement of the Iran and Trieste disputes, the unification of Austria, the rearmament of Germany and its incorporation into NATO, and the reconstruction of Korea...
...Staff, had tentatively proposed that the U.S. take advantage of increased nuclear firepower by lopping 800,000 men off its armed forces in the next four years. To Adenauer, who had just pushed a highly unpopular conscription bill through the Bundestag in response to U.S. pressure for West German rearmament, it was particularly galling that his old friend John Foster Dulles had not given him advance warning of the Radford plan (TIME, Sept. 3). U.S. assurances failed to calm him. The more he pondered, the more Adenauer became convinced that the U.S. was on the verge of withdrawing to "Fortress...
...Confidence. In Brixham, England, Mrs. Rhoda Clarke refused to pay a ?1 ($2.80) dog license, told a magistrate's court the things she was protesting: "H-bomb tests, German rearmament, the flouting of the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Human Rights, and British Government policy...