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There is now considerable evidence that Erhard would like to trim welfare benefits. Wages are currently so high that a considerable amount of German industry is leaving the country in search of cheaper labor and higher profits. But if Erhard tries to ease this problem by welfare cuts, he will not only give the Socialists an issue for 1965, but he will arouse opposition in the left wing of his own party. He will again face the problem of unifying his party and clarifying its image before the election...
...Iron Curtain, the West Germans are more sensitive to the subtle shifts in East-West relations than any other people in Europe. The least concession to Russia brings suspicions of a sellout. Hence West Germany's anguish last week at the transatlantic reports that the U.S. might trim down some of the six combat divisions on the Continent. SENSATIONAL U.S. PLAN WITH DRAWAL OF COMBAT TROOPS, shrieked Frankfurt's Abendpost. Asked Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung: THIS QUESTION CONCERNS US ALL: HOW MANY AMERICANS REMAIN IN GERMANY...
...more attractive argument is the possible improvement in the U.S. balance of payments. Actually, while the Pentagon could trim a lot out of its budget (every division costs some $75 million a year), there would be no great saving to the gold flow, since West Germany is tied by a so-called "offset" agreement to spend some $650 million a year in 1962-64 on materiel purchases in the U.S. The guarantee to offset U.S. dollar
...Paris Opera had commissioned a big, spectacular work from the composer five years ago. And when Menotti presented a huge opera bouffe, it was banished to the cramped Comique on the ground that it was too frivolous for France's official opera house. Menotti did his best to trim and squeeze his long work, but it came out looking starved instead. Paris was rightfully unimpressed ("Distressing, extremely poor, bordering on indigence," wrote Le Figaro), but The Last Savage will have another go at civilization in January. The Metropolitan Opera will present its New York premiere in the grand manner...
Swell! The Journal shed manly tears at her departure-"Against the well-planned schedules of her rivals, Dorothy has only her wits and the brave heart that beats under her trim little jacket"-and proudly published the note that came fluttering down from the Hindenburg's gondola in Lakehurst, N.J.: "Goodbye, America. I'll be right back." In Frankfort 58 hours later, Dorothy was given a royal welcome by Nazi General Franz von Epp, Governor General of Bavaria, who called himself her "godfather in Germany" and suggested another date. But Dorothy pressed...