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...threatened to quit and take his four F.D.P. colleagues with him out of the coalition Cabinet. But in the end Adenauer salved his hurt feelings by firing a couple of the second-level ministerial officials involved in the arrests. They were obviously political scapegoats. The compromise hardly satisfied Der Spiegel's editors, who splashed Augstein's photograph on the cover of the following week's issue, ran a 24-page story on the affair...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer saved his regime from collapse over the Der Spiegel "treason" scandal last week. But nothing der Alte did or said could muffle the growing noise surrounding his government's role in the affair...
...jail were Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of his brash newsmagazine, which had angered the government by its incessant criticism and allegedly had broken the law by its publication of "secret" details of the strength of the West German army (TIME. Nov. 9). Still scouring Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters for evidence were the squads of police that last month had pounced on the staff in a series of midnight raids...
When it was discovered that the Herren Strauss had ordered the arrest of Der Spiegel editors without the knowledge of Justice Minister Stammburger, a Free Democrat, the opposition parties, the Free Democrats and much of the public interpreted the action as a personal vendetta with political overtones. The affair was made even more ominous by the government's request for laws which would enable it to rule partially by decree...
...Spiegel case will not be resolved for many months, but so far Adenauer has behaved like an angry child caught with his hand in the cooky-jar. It is disturbing to see the leaders of a constitutional Western democracy revert to police methods to suppress criticism. Hopefully the German people will keep their government on the path of democracy which it has followed since...