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...other maneuvers to check the trouble in his coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...
...Moral Code. Theodor H. Caster's The Dead Sea Scriptures (Doubleday; $4-Anchor Books; 95?) is the first complete English translation of the scrolls for laymen. Now visiting professor of history of religions at Columbia University and professor of comparative religion at Dropsie College, Gaster prints the virtually complete text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard...
...week's end the President took fresh bearings on the Rock and messaged West Germany's President Theodor Heuss: "We know that so long as unity in freedom is withheld from the German people . . . there can be no permanent security in Europe." The occasion for the President's cable befitted his theme: it was June 17, 1956, third anniversary of the celebrated day of revolt when East Berlin boys fought Soviet tanks with stones...
...Received as a present from West German President Theodor Heuss a book en titled Praesident Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vorfahren und Verwartdte, which traces Ike's family five centuries back to the Odenwald Mountains...
...rearmament, Spiro felt that the need for a 500,000 man German army is much less acute now than it had seemed in 1950. Kohn agreed, and pointed out, in conjunction with Theodor Weyer, exchange student from the Free University of Berlin, that the German economy might not take to large-scale rearmament, since it is prospering under the present...