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...Bonn last week, Zorin moved into the Villa Hentzen, onetime home of a 19th century Cologne millionaire, on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Chancellor Adenauer's home. But a mile upstream he had carpenters working feverishly, repairing an old hotel for his staff of 45 Russians, who are also part of the devil's bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Devil's Payoff | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Theoretically, NATO maintains 48 divisions (v. Russia's 175). Actually, it can presently rely on only ten of them, of which five are U.S., four British. France has depleted its four divisions on the Rhine to crush the spreading revolt in North Africa. Britain is reducing its army by 100,000 men; Belgium is disbanding one of its three active divisions; four of the five Dutch divisions are mere skeletons. Denmark's contribution in soldiers is practically negligible, since its 14-month conscription period is too short to train a soldier properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Challenge & Response | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...university's foreign program, was at his usual position of honor at the venerable oak table in the Schnitzelbank inn, drinking, wheezing and expounding. The small group of students clustered about the master were breathing in the new German philosophy as blandly as they downed the latest Rhine vintages. And the eagerest of these were the "Amis...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Doublethink Rethought | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

After four weeks in bed with a severe bout of bronchial pneumonia, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was up and about again. The old man (he will be 80 next January) was still confined to his villa overlooking the Rhine, but he called in his Cabinet officers and kept up with the news from Geneva (see above). Doctors had advised a three-month vacation in Sicily, but der Alte would have none of it. "A leave of convalescence does not seem required," said a bulletin from Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: After Adenauer | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Schaffer would probably be only an interim leader until some younger, stronger man could emerge. For the long pull, the betting now favors Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 51, or Trade Unionist Karl Arnold, 54, Minister President of West Germany's biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: After Adenauer | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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