Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base of German recovery is the reconstructed Ruhr, which is already overtaking Britain in steel production. Ruhr production in September...
...notion that Europe can trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense, cheerfully proposed that Britain's draft period could be safely relaxed from two years to 18 months...
Three weeks ago, U.S.-French maneuvers aimed at holding several Rhine crossings alarmed the West Germans, who got the impression that NATO's strategic thinking is centered on a defense at the Rhine (which would mean giving up most of West Germany, including the Ruhr). But last week's exercise should have reassured the Germans. The basic idea of Holdfast is that a relatively small Western force-with good weapons and air support, and with the right tactics-could stop a massive Russian drive east of the Rhine. How? Not by an old-fashioned linear defense based...
...steel mills, stolidly watched the nine-man High Authority of the European Coal-Steel Community take charge of an industrial colossus which will outproduce Russia in steel and rival her in coal. The Schuman Plan had become fact, and with it the ceiling imposed by the Allies on Ruhr steel production was finally lifted. Behind a battery of red gladioli in Luxembourg's City Hall, the men whose job it will be to sweep away Western Europe's tariff walls, crush its cartels, modernize its production methods and sell its coal and steel to all members...
HEINZ POTTHOFF, 48, labor-minded German steelmaker and German delegate to the Allied Ruhr Authority...