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Looking Forward. With German trade in Latin America already running at a rate of nearly $500 million a year, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are now so far in debt to Bonn that Erhard was not interested at the moment in signing new trade agreements. The only bargain he proposed in Santiago provided for the restoration of the Bayer and Merck drug properties, seized in World War II. But Erhard had bigger matters in mind. West Germany's continued progress, he said, requires wider foreign business, and Latin America, rich in raw materials and poor in machinery and manufactured...
East Germany's Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...
...will nourish discontent among the sensitive West Germans, who are once again the most powerful people in Europe, yet still are denied the right to bear arms or exercise national sovereignty. "We are still waiting for the change from occupation statute to contractual agreement [peace treaty and EDC]," snapped Bonn's pro-government General-Anzeiger. "How long must we wait? The question can only be answered in Paris...
Americans and British backed the Ger mans, and in the end, under severe pressure, Paris gave way and allowed Bonn to go through with the amendment. Next day, President Theodor Heuss added his signature, and it was promulgated as the law of the land in West Germany...
...troops on the Continent might be placed under an EDC general. More important, the U.S. bluntly served notice that it soon plans to press for West Germany's return to sovereignty, with or without EDC. "The occupying powers are agreed," said U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant in Bonn, "that the West German Republic shall become a sovereign state. If by chance this should not come to pass in the near future, I feel sure that ... it is in the best interest of all concerned that [German independence] should be put into force. In other words, the period...