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During the past year, the leftward tilt of the balance has halted, in a change so subtle that people of the Western world might overlook it. But the signs are there: three former enemies of Russia-Japan, West Germany (including the vital Ruhr) and Italy-are now in the Western camp; a NATO army is forming; the gigantic U.S. industrial potential, to which Stalin paid respectful tribute in World War II, is beginning to Stir...
...peace contract" (not a treaty) will be signed with Germany if the Bonn government agrees to contribute troops to the European army and to share the Ruhr's coal and steel under the Schuman plan. The peace contract would go far toward restoring to the Germans full rights over their own affairs. There would be certain safeguards. The Allies will retain the rights 1) to station troops in Germany, though these would become defense forces instead of occupying troops; 2) to settle all questions about Germany's frontiers, precluding any attempt by Germany to make separate deals with...
...army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...
...coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please! It is more blessed to give than to receive!" They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still had to laugh when he came scuttling into an air-raid shelter on the eve of Germany's surrender, barking gaily: "May I introduce myself? My name is Meier...
...views on the role of the Schumann Plan in the European economic picture. Rudolf Renger, an official of the Social Democratic party, and an Inspector in the Civil Service of the West German state of Schleswig-Holstein, criticized postwar Allied policies towards Germany, stressing the forced deindustrialization of the Ruhr and the lack of benefits for Germany under the Marshall Plan...