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Alarmed by the Neo-Nazis, the Bonn government has outlawed S.R.P.'s own version of the Nazi SS, the Reichsfront, strong-arm squads "for maintaining order at meetings." Bonn, however, did not interfere with S.R.P.'s Reichsjugend (a new edition of the Hitler Youth) and Frauen-bund (Women's League), kept passing the buck to the Lower Saxony state government, which passed it back to Bonn. Last week, after S.R.P.'s show of strength in the election, Bonn's Minister of the Interior, Dr. Robert Lehr, declared: "We are determined to stamp out the fire...
Butter wouldn't have melted in Ilva's mouth. Cooed he: "Within the peace movement there are people who are for the [West German] Bonn regime, and people who are for the Berlin [Russian] regime. The council will not reproach the Bonn regime for being antiCommunist. If they take internal measures which don't please this or that member of the council, that is their business. But when they undertake negotiations to build a new Wehrmacht, that goes against humanity...
Gleichberechtigung. If the Brussels conference ratified this agreement, the next major job would be to sell it to the Germans. As the Western military position had deteriorated, and the Russian threat grew, Germany's price for risking rearmament had risen. The Bonn government now demanded no less than Gleichberechtigung (equality). Politically, this meant ending the occupation statute, replacing it by a treaty giving Germany sovereignty. Militarily, it meant full German divisions, commanded by Germans...
...followed, though her attitude now seemed less hostile. France and Germany had done most of the parleying. "Whenever they agreed on a point," explained one planner, "the other nations would follow suit." Some German officials yearned for the return of profitable cartels and combines again. U.S. pressure and the Bonn government stifled their longings...
Then there remains the problem of how a German army would be raised. Both Bonn and the Western powers fear that an army raised from volunteers would incorporate the most warlike and dissatisfied elements of the society, the unreformed members of the Wermacht who have never quite given up on the last war and who would like nothing better than a chance to ally with the United States in an aggressive war against Russia...