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...Charles de Gaulle and of the "eternal" bonds of understanding that now link Europe's once deadly enemies. Coolly he brushed aside impatient newsmen who were more interested in a stunning domestic development: a sharp regional election upset last week of his Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's richest, most populous state, comprising one-third of the whole West German electorate. Last September the C.D.U. lost its absolute majority in the federal Bundestag, was forced to rule by entering into an uneasy coalition with the small Free Democratic Party. Now, in its second major...
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...
...Britain becomes charter member of the U.N., joins NATO in 1949, pledges "permanent" army on the Rhine...
After a few days of accompanying the boss on his restless prowl of every corner of his big stores. Gart lost five pounds, and says he hasn't done so much footwork since he double-timed across Germany from the Rhine to the Elbe with the Ninth Army in World...
...champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer's spacious office by the Rhine, the pair got down to business. Der Alte was anxious to present his new plan to immediately draw up a contract for Europe's political unity. Let those countries sign that wished to do so; the rest could come in later. Adenauer feared that unity might be delayed...