Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest men in Adenauer's own party is Ludwig Erhard, Minister of Economics, who in the past two years has helped guide West Germany back to a relatively free economy. Generally considered a man to watch is 48-year-old Karl Arnold, president of Bonn's Bundesrat (Upper House), a hard-hitting Catholic trade-union leader who frequently acts as spokesman for the workers in his native Ruhr. No friend of Adenauer's, whom he considers too conservative, Arnold may some day be his rival for party leadership...
...Berlin Dilemma. The most obvious, and the most important political fact facing Konrad Adenauer's government is that it governs only two-thirds of Germany. Simply by holding the other third, the Russians can constantly dangle the prize of unity before West Germany's eyes. The focus of this continuing battle for Germany's allegiance is Berlin. In the divided city's Eastern sector, the Russians have set up the capital of their puppet state; to all Germans, they proclaim Berlin once more the capital of the Reich. But the city's Western sector feels...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...
...West Germany were becoming louder. Wrote London's wise Economist: "It is quite impossible to think of neutralizing Germany . . . Germany must therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...
Giving German industry increasingly free rein involved risk; giving the West Germans more sovereignty involved risk; backing Konrad Adenauer was a gamble; arming the Germans would be a gamble-But the only real alternative to what the U.S. was doing in Germany would be to let the country stagnate and, eventually, fall to Communism. That would not be a gamble: it would be certain disaster...