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...breathtaking display of cliff-walking by der Alte, as he alternately flirted with the potent Socialists and with the Free Democrats to find a workable coalition. What finally emerged was a 21-man Cabinet in which most of the top men, such as Economics Minister Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Special Affairs Minister Heinrich Krone, retained their old jobs. It is a Cabinet somewhat younger than the previous one, and more conservative...
...change is at the Defense Ministry, for it brings to the fore a new personality who will rival Schroder in the C.D.U. echelon below Erhard. Successor to Strauss is a North German named Kai-Uwe von Hassel,* 49, who was born in Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony. Von Hassel's agility in C.D.U. party matters has long marked him as a comer...
...placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons. No one he had talked to, reported Schroder, had any solid evidence that the Soviets were about to make any unusual new trouble for Berlin...
Palaver at State. Both London and Paris essentially agreed with Schroder's estimate. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had a three-hour talk with Ambassador Foy Kohler in which he delivered no warnings, and pushed no harder than before. In Washington, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at his own request, saw Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk. As usual, Gromyko was adamant; at a State Department dinner the dialogue droned on roughly like this...
...Challenge. Short-circuited by Schroder and harshly rebuked for his tactlessness by opposition German papers, Adenauer kept silent. On the eve of De Gaulle's visit, he was plainly unwilling to take any corrective action that might seem to be currying favor with Britain...