Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sweeping into Bonn last week accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon and a corps of 24 advisers, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson had only one thought in mind. Come hell or high water, he was determined to jar the West Germans into parting with enough Deutsche Mark to make a major dent in the increasing deficit (an estimated $4 billion for 1960) in the U.S.'s international balance of payments. Brushing aside the cautionary briefings of U.S. diplomats on the spot, Anderson confronted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard with...
With a single-mindedness so intense that one participant described it as "ferocity," Anderson brushed aside the promising beginnings of the new billion-dollar German foreign-aid program (TIME, Nov. 28). Foreign aid, he told Adenauer and Erhard, was "not urgent"; what the U.S. needed was cash, and it needed it faster than any foreign-aid program could deliver. Anderson followed this up with further demands that Germany 1) start paying immediately a good part of the U.S.'s present share (37%) of the cost of jointly run NATO facilities such as pipelines, depots, etc.; 2) start easing immediately...
...Germans certainly needed jacking up-in a way that would shame them into anteing up, or at least shame them. On the second day of the talks. Erhard stonily declared that the Germans could not agree to pay for U.S. troop support. But after a series of mealy-mouthed pleas about the "illusory" state of Germany's present wealth, Erhard began to give some ground. His government, he said, was ready to re-examine the idea of joining with all other NATO members in some device through which Germany could contribute to paying such NATO costs (perhaps...
Loss or Dross? Though Don Ardito shuns his priestly duties, he is periodically seized by religious raptures. In one trance-like transport, he rises a yard into the air and German troops mysteriously call off a military operation. Inevitably, the priest's miracles are less convincing than his miseries. Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows. It is apparent long before novel's end that Don Ardito had never actually...
West Berlin Concert (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). A tape of the New York Philharmonic during the recent German visit, with Conductor Leonard Bernstein lecturing on "The Universality of Beethoven's Music" and doubling as soloist in Beethoven's Concerto "No. I" in C Major...