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...powers. At Bangkok the SEATO nations set up permanent headquarters for the defense of Southeast Asia, and U.S. policies were advanced with skill and success. For the affirmative decision at Bonn, the U.S. could congratulate itself on having a rocklike friend in Der Alte, Western Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who first conceived SEATO. But the basic factor underlying success in both places is confidence that the U.S. will neither encroach upon nor abandon its friends...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has maintained all along that the rearmament vote need not prevent-in fact might even encourage-Russian attempts to negotiate with the West. Strength, he argued, is what the Russians respect. Last week everything pointed to Adenauer's essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a burden that might cripple a man half his age, the indomitable old Chancellor had made his mark on history. Almost singlehanded, in the face of ruthlessly hard and skillfully soft Soviet pressure, in the face of French letdowns and Socialist opposition at home, he delivered to the West the long...
Inside the Bundeshaus the members' gong sounded, summoning 151 Socialists and 333 members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democrat coalition to the climactic debate on West German rearmament. For five years the debate had raged, setting German against German, until the arguments were worn to clichés and all that was left was passion. But though the Deputies' minds were made up, and the result a foregone conclusion, more than 50 eager politicians had put down their names to speak. The debate was, in effect, the last opportunity for each side to arrange the record...
...bitter, contentious week before Der Tag (Feb. 24), the day when the West German Bundestag opens its final debate on German rearmament. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, secure in his huge parliamentary majority, was "100% certain" that the Paris accords would be ratified. Yet he and his Cabinet colleagues were stumping the countryside, pleading with the German people to abide by the Parliament's decision and accept the call to arms when it came. Crisscrossing the Chancellor's path and blackening his policies were the Social Democrats (SPD) in full cry. The Socialists' aim: to postpone German rearmament until...
...Communists talked furiously, it was the massive Socialist campaign that was doing the most harm. In town after town, the SPD was whipping up German youths to riot against rearmament, circulating petitions and questionnaires whose loaded questions (gist: Do you want unity or do you want war?) led Konrad Adenauer to exclaim that these were the same techniques used by the Nazis and Communists...