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...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 to screen all officers from colonel up, giving both parliament and President Theodor Heuss veto power over the board's membership...
Adenauer's Defense Minister Theodor Blank tried to reassure the Bundestag by saying that he shared all its fears: "The army must not be a state within a state. Parliamentary control must be made stronger than was formerly the case in Germany." Not one of these limitations, objected the opposition, was spelled out in the bill. And while the Bundestag might trust Adenauer, it did not trust the old army elite, and did not want an army born before the limitations on its officers' responsibilities were well understood in advance...
...tendered his own resignation as Foreign Minister (a job he has combined with the Chancellorship for four years), and nominated two key new ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished...
...Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated him, but barred photographers from snapping any pictures of the un ceremonious ceremony...
...Bets Down. After four days and long nights of debate, Faure laid in his final plea. His allies had helped all that they could. To ease the way, German President Theodor Heuss had signed the Paris accords, completing German action except for the formality of depositing the instrument of ratification. Secretary of State Dulles had sent a carefully worded message pledging the U.S. to "closest cooperation" with the new Western European Union. Faure played his trump...