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...hesitant Bundestag. By the time he got through, parliament kept for itself the power to pass on the Defense Ministry's organization, limited recruitment to 6,000 men (3,000 officers, 1,500 noncoms, 1,500 enlisted men), and prohibited the formation of combat units. Under this stopgap bill, which would expire next March, the volunteers would be used only to staff the Defense Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill setting up a selection board...
Tousle-haired Socialist Ollenhauer was bristling over Adenauer's curt, 250-word "volunteers bill," a stopgap measure by which der Alte hoped to have the beginnings of a German army in time for the Big Four conference. Months of legislative deliberation would be needed to create a legal structure for Adenauer's ultimate goal of a twelve-division army and 1,300-plane air force. Meanwhile, promised...
With the auxiliary discounted as a backstop, Canada's first-line air defenses are thin. The bulk of R.C.A.F. fighter strength (300 aircraft) is assigned to NATO in Europe; only nine understrength interceptor squadrons (140 jets) are stationed in Canada. As a stopgap measure, the R.C.A.F. plans to bring home squadrons up to full strength (216 aircraft) by year's end. Canadian and U.S. defenses are well coordinated, and in a crisis Canada's planners presumably would look for help from the south. Yet the hard fact is that if A-bombs start to fall...
...from Washington last week. Because of lagging coffee exports, the country was desperately short of dollars. Fortnight ago. the government cut the minimum coffee-export price from 65.7? a lb. to 53.8?-a measure that should eventually revive exports and bring in more dollars. Meanwhile, Brazil urgently needed a stopgap dollar loan. Heeding the call for help, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland interrupted his visit to Cuba with Vice President Richard Nixon, flew to Rio. In less than 24 hours, Washington's Export-Import Bank announced a new $75 million credit to Brazil to finance essential imports...
...Yale Daily News has given the program its blessing with the comment that the plan "will help establish the tradition which the colleges must eventually have." However, the college daily reserves final judgment on the new procedure, which it terms a "wonderful stopgap measure.... If the University does not make sure to use it as a starting point for other changes the colleges might be permanently reduced to the status of glorified dormitories," the paper warns...