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...Europe, West Germany has refused to contribute more than 5.5% of its swelling gross national product to its own defense. Britain, despite inflationary troubles, contributes 10.1%, the U.S. 11.6%. ¶ Despite its failure to build its own army, West Germany, in the person of pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, for months refused flatly to continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied troops in Germany. ¶ West Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete. ¶Though Germany has accumulated...
...seemed once again more like his old self. He summoned all his power-and it took all of it-to get the conscription bill through its first reading (it will take all his power to get it enacted by fall). He roused himself at last to put Fritz Schaffer in his place. Last week, speaking with Adenauer's backing, Foreign Minister Brentano reversed Schaffer's stand, announced that West Germany will continue to share the cost of maintaining Allied troops on its soil "in the spirit of our alliance," until West Germany had built an army...
...list is chosen by drawing lots before each match--but somewhere between first and sixth singles will appear the likes of Johann Kupferburger, top Davis Cupper from the Union of South Africa, and highly ranked American stars as Al and Dave Harum, Ed Rubinoff, Allen Quay, and Larry Schaffer...
...official German reiteration of its devotion to Western policy, the fact is that in West Germany, nobody is keen to join the new German army. Business wants no new defense industry to dislocate the country's roaring prosperity. Hardfisted Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer has decided that a mere 5.5% of the gross national product is a sufficient contribution for defense costs, and last week refused again to kick in the $760 million that Bonn has hitherto paid for support of the Allied troops who constitute the country's only defense...
During the nationwide fretting over the Chancellor's illness, one previously unmentionable subject got talked about, and all but settled. Should Adenauer die in harness or be forced by ill health to resign, he will be succeeded by his Finance Minister, wispy Fritz Schaffer, the penny-pinching Bavarian banker who did most to make the German mark sound. At his age (67), 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...