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Chancellor Adenauer was out of town when the message came through: the East German parliament wanted to send a delegation to Bonn to discuss "peace and unity." Bundestag President Hermann Ehlers tried to phone Adenauer, but could not reach him. On his own, Ehlers sent back word that the East German delegation could come on over...
Last week a Polish DC-3 set the five East German peace-and-unity boys down at Düsseldorf and three Russian-made Zims, led by two green police cars, took them on to Bonn. Crossing the big Rhine bridge at Bonn, the delegates were greeted by posters calling them "Schweinehunde!" and demanding "Out with Stalin's messenger boys!" In front of the Bundeshaus (parliament building), crowds pushed around the East Germans, shouting "Murderers!" "Go home!" A car with a huge loudspeaker followed the visitors, bellowing epithets...
...handed out identical notes to the Ambassadors of the U.S., Britain and France, proposing a Big Four conference, not later than October, on the question of an all-German government and a German peace treaty. This was the latest of many Kremlin attempts to weaken the alignment of the Bonn government with the West by holding up the illusory prospect of "unification." More & more Germans are waking up to the fact that the only unity Russia really wants for Germany is the graveyard unity of total Soviet control...
...afternoon last week, in his book-lined study on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn, Kurt Schumacher received newsmen and a MARCH OF TIME cinema crew. He asked that pictures be taken of his boxer Ajax, because, "after all, he is the best looking." Then Schumacher repeated his familiar line: "The partition of Germany is the greatest source of strength for Soviet policy. Reunification is an aim more pressing and more important for peace . . . than any form of integration of one portion of Germany with other European countries." It turned out to be his last no to Western policy. That night, Kurt...
After the agreement is formally approved by the Bonn and interested governments, trading in the bonds will be resumed on the world's exchanges. When last traded in the U.S., the Young 5½% had fallen to $2.50 (par value: $100). But on Swiss markets, where trading never stopped, the Young bonds last week climbed...