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Until last spring, two Administration officials--Admiral Strauss and Edward Teller--completely dominated the disarmament policy of the U.S., Saville R. Davis, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, told the Adams House Political Forum last night...
Davis charged Strauss and Teller with adopting the thesis that "there should be no serious disarmament discussion because, even if we managed to negotiate an agreement, the Russians could find a way to get around...
...Strauss-Teller theory, Davis said, "held that anything which diverts the minds and pocketbooks of America from preparation for the 'inevitable conflict with Russia' is treasonable...
Last week, laying the cornerstone of a German West Point in Hamburg to train future officers of the leadership staff, Defense Minister Strauss decided to put in a good word for the old blood-and-iron ways. "Free of false prejudice and erroneous ideas of collective guilt," said he, "our Bundeswehr can now assume a new attitude toward the tradition. German soldiers need not be ashamed of this tradition. Follow the ageless tradition and the old ideals-selfless service, honor and bravery, linked to the needs of our time...
Young Germans have accepted military conscription without much murmur, but also without enthusiasm. Strauss has silenced those Germans who yelled "Bellhops" at his parading recruits by junking their first U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets and laced shoes, and presenting his countrymen with the sight of soldiers in tightly belted tunics and clumping leather boots and officers in the old familiar Wehrmacht-style high-peaked caps...