Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unexpected Rejection. The U.S. had expected some NATO allies to reject the offer-notably Norway and Denmark, who have steadfastly refused to have U.S. bombers based on their soil. Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, a 60-year-old ex-road mender who was one of the five Socialist or quasi-Socialist Premiers among the 14 present in Paris, promptly met that expectation. Said Gerhardsen: "We have no plans in Norway to let atomic stockpiles be established on Norwegian territory, or to construct launching sites for intermediate range ballistic missiles." What was not expected was his next statement. Seizing...
Denmark's Hans Christian Hansen, another Socialist, echoed the Norwegian line. Then West Germany's tough-minded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer spoke up. Despite the fact that the Bulganin notes talked vaguely of a neutralized Germany -a prospect that is anathema to Adenauer-the West German Chancellor was no longer prepared to accept the U.S. lead in the matter of East-West negotiations. Said he: "I would see no objection to attempting to inquire through diplomatic channels from the Soviet government what precise conceptions form the basis of these proposals...
...Populaire, organ of France's Socialist Party, praised the Prime Ministers for establishing "an equilibrium between political and military imperatives." And in Belgium the Roman Catholic Het Volk took comfort in the thought that "the Russians will be placed face to face with clear and concrete disarmament proposals. If the Soviets refuse again, a period of painful pessimism may follow, but at least the world will know where it stands...
Happiest of all were the West Germans who, along with many other Europeans, were convinced that Konrad Adenauer had been the star of the show. Even the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, ordinarily hostile to Adenauer's Christian Democrats, hailed the old Chancellor as "the rock of Bonn ... a brilliant tactician who can credit himself with having given the conference the twist that allowed all participants to go home satisfied...
...luring the Russians back, the commission had been enlarged to include 25 members. Thus disposing of practical roads to disarmament, he airily suggested two impractical ones: a special disarmament session of the entire 82-member U.S. General Assembly or a vague "international conference on disarmament" between all capitalist and Socialist countries...