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French and Germans were hissing and snarling at each other over the Saar region again...
...fortnight of caterwauling nationalism, the German press screamed that the French were plotting economic annexation of the Saar. Bonn's Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler scoffed at French fears. German aggression, he said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
During the meeting, headlines in the demagogic sectors of the French and German press yipped about the Saar issue. Afterwards, Adenauer disclosed that he had reaffirmed Germany's claim to the Saar; Schuman said he had told Adenauer that France viewed the Saar as a point on the peace-treaty agenda...
...Germany would be permitted to enter certain international organizations, e.g.. the Council of Europe. (The Saar would be admitted to the council separately, on an equal basis with Germany...
...Paris for three days, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West German Republic and the Saar territory to the Council as an "associate member." But on almost every other question the ministers passed the buck to U.N., to OEEC and other organizations...