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...everyone had expected, Andrei Vishinsky turned down the West's proposal for a Germany united on the basis of the Bonn constitution. He took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
...Minimum. The Western delegates had no intention of losing what had been gained in Germany. German unity, they insisted, must come within the democratic framework of the Bonn constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS...
After four days' debate on his proposals, Vishinsky asked the Westerners for their ideas. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman hammered out a proposal. Highlights: unity under the Bonn constitution, no more reparations out of current production, no Russian ownership of German industry, four-power control through a High Commission bound by majority decision "save in exceptional circumstances...
Five minutes before the opening gavel at the Foreign Ministers' conference in Paris, Konrad Adenauer, president of Germany's constitutional assembly, rose up in Bonn's Pedagogical Institute and intoned: "Today the new Germany arises." One by one the delegates of eleven Western German states stepped up and signed Western Germany's new democratic constitution (TIME, May 16). Even the Bavarians, who had hoped for more autonomy, less federal control, relented and grudgingly joined the Western German fold...
Aware of totalitarian tendencies still alive in Germany, the Bonn Conference also laid the groundwork for outlawing the Communists or any neo-Nazi group. The constitution provides that political parties may be ruled unconstitutional if they attempt to abolish "the free and democratic basic order...