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Numbering nearly 90 in all, they were representatives of the present ruling houses of Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; disinherited princelings from Italy, France, Spain, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; dynastic relics from kingdoms whose thrones had long since ceased to exist: Bourbon-Parmas, Mecklenburgs, Schaumburg-Lippes, Hesses, Thurn und Taxis, and Hohenlohe-Langenburgs...
...evening last week the U.S. and British Ambassadors to France hurried to the Quai d'Orsay with an urgent message; the next morning the British High Commissioner to West Germany strode into Palais Schaumburg and interrupted an Adenauer Cabinet session with the same news. After waiting more than two years for France to make up its mind on EDC, the U.S. and Britain had decided to go it without France, at least part of the way. Unless France acts on EDC before its Parliament quits for the summer (around Aug. 15), Washington and London would give West Germany...
Adenauer's victory was a victory for Europe, and the West's big cold-war success of 1953. When the striped German flag was raised in post-election triumph above the Chancellor's Palais Schaumburg, the green and white flag of European unity was run up alongside it. "The elections," said Konrad Adenauer, "have decided that Europe will come about, that the EDC will come about, and that the cold war is lost for Russia...
Seated one day last week in his huge office in the Palais Schaumburg, Chancellor Adenauer made a temple of his fingers and, chatting with TIME Correspondent Frank White, allowed himself the luxury of some mild self-satisfaction. "I cannot avoid smiling a little when, as chief of an occupied country, I sit down with the leaders of the occupying nations, such as Mr. Eden and M. Bidault. In spite of the fact that Germany hasn't yet full sovereignty, its economic and political impact is fully felt in world affairs...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has moved his office out from under the stuffed animals of the König Museum into the newly redecorated, million-mark Schaumburg palace. "If we want to be a power again," says Adenauer, "we have to look like...