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Feted with Champagne. Ludke, 57, a handsome, gregarious man, was not told of the suspicions against him until three days before he left the navy. The occasion was a champagne luncheon feting his retirement. After a laudatory farewell speech by Defense Minister Gerhard Schroder, Vice Admiral Gert Jeschonnek, the chief of the navy, and a counterespionage man took Ludke aside to question him. The admiral at first lamely explained that someone must have stolen the Minox to take the pictures. However, he later changed his story to claim that he wanted the documents for his memoirs. If so, they would...
...years, but Kiesinger's Cabinet, worried about the economic slowdown in West Germany, two weeks ago decided to cut military expansion plans by about 25%. When a jet passed low over the Palais Schaumburg, in which the Cabinet was meeting, Interior Minister Paul Lücke cracked: "Schroder is calling out his Starfighters against us." Schroder was not amused. "No," he replied icily, "that must be the Americans pulling...
Holding a Grudge. Kiesinger was furious. He went on TV to disavow Schroder, saying that "the Cabinet has by no means decided to cut the troop strength of the Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...
...Schroder for fingering him, when Schroder was Foreign Minister, as the man who ordered the arrest of an edi tor in the 1962 Der Spiegel scandal. The ambitious Strauss, who aims at the chancellorship for himself one day and sees Schroder as a rival, accused Schroder of misleading the German public with "lies and deliberate propaganda...
After two or three meetings with Kiesinger, Schroder continued to insist that the cutback would mean a drop in army strength. His goading finally led Kiesinger to announce that he would make no decision on any changes in German armed strength before consulting President Johnson, whom he will visit in Washington beginning Aug. 15. Schroder so far has not been asked to go along. In fact, the two are not at all compatible. The austere North German Defense Minister and the relaxed Swabian could hardly be more unlike in taste, temperament and several areas of policy. Schroder, the only unremitting...