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After all the international fretting over whether Konrad Adenauer would get a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag for German rearmament, the Bundestag last week gave its answer. It overwhelmingly enacted the constitutional amendments needed to clear the way for the creation of the new German armed forces. With all but a few Socialists voting in rare solidarity with Adenauer's Christian Democrats, the vote was an overwhelming...
...national repercussions: seats in the federal upper house are chosen by the local governments. He was thus deprived of North Rhine-Westphalia's five votes there, and lost his two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat. Adenauer needs the two-thirds majority to put through constitutional changes permitting German rearmament...
Germany has built up a dollar reserve of $1.3 billion, balanced its budget, and expects to bank a $600 million surplus this year. But its good showing was possible chiefly because of vast grants of U.S. aid, and because Germany spent relatively little for rearmament (see FOREIGN NEWS). In an effort to liberalize foreign trade, Belgium lifted virtually all exchange restrictions on the franc and established a free gold market. But Belgium is having trouble staying within its income, has run up a $6.2 billion national debt. Gradually, however, Belgium is getting the problem in hand, expects its deficit this...
...constantly falling short of constantly reduced goals. The original goal of 90 active divisions was cut by the Three Wise Men*to 50. Soon after he took command in mid-1953, Gruenther recognized that not even this goal was going to be met. In the U.S., Eisenhower shifted U.S. rearmament from a crash basis to "the long haul." In Europe, making a virtue of what was political necessity, Gruenther set up the New Approach Group to devise a new strategy for the defense of Europe, with himself as chief planner...
...candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending the Indo-China war. Mendès-France gave as good as he got. For a neo-Fascist heckler...