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...West Germany a Foreign Office official treated himself to a figure of speech: "The trigger was pulled in Moscow, the bang was heard in Vienna, but the shot fell in Bonn...
Symbol of Confidence. Acting unilaterally and with a certain haste (to strengthen Chancellor Adenauer's position), the U.S. sent High Commissioner James B. Conant to deposit the instrument of U.S. ratification of the West European treaties in Bonn, ahead of the British and French, instead of together as originally planned. Conant signed the protocols with Adenauer, while a crowd of U.S. and German dignitaries and newsmen looked on. Said Der Alte: "I value this as a symbol of confidence and friendship. It obligates us to carry on and deepen our mutual work...
...West also has its mechanisms, suitably adjustable to the occasion. Prosperous West Germany supplies the hungry East Germans with substantial quantities of food, coal and machinery, and the Communists would like to increase this trade. At week's end, the Bonn government casually let it be known that it was far too busy with the question of increased tolls to be bothered about increasing trade. Said Konrad Adenauer: "It won't last. They need East-West trade too badly...
...Germany it was the jolly talk of a Big Three toast to the execution of 50,000 German officers that caught most eyes. But most Germans needed no further evidence of the wartime hatred of themselves among the Allies, and some even conceded, as did Bonn's General-Anzeiger, that "those who are outraged at the attitude of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt should not overlook the fact that Germany was partly to blame for the unhappy development." Among responsible West Germans, the most widespread reaction was the realization that all of the Allies were responsible for 1) the partition...
...debate dawned cold, with fine driving snow whipping off the Rhine into the capital city of Bonn. The Communists were early in action, staging "a fighting day for the whole nation" in the cities of the Eastern zone. A delegation of "East German mothers" arrived in Bonn and joined a crowd of Ruhr rowdies who paraded around chanting, "Adenauer is following in Hitler's footsteps-throw him out." The Socialist trade unions of Munich turned out 25,000 members carrying banners with the slogan: "We don't want to die for dollars or rubles...