WEST GERMANY: Not So Fast

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, no militarist, heard himself accused in Bonn last week of soliciting "a blank check for a pact between militarism and bureaucracy." The words were those of Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer, but they reflected the mood of the entire Bundestag.

Tousle-haired Socialist Ollenhauer was bristling over Adenauer's curt, 250-word "volunteers bill," a stopgap measure by which der Alte hoped to have the beginnings of a German army in time for the Big Four conference. Months of legislative deliberation would be needed to create a legal structure for Adenauer's ultimate goal of a twelve-division army and 1,300-plane air force. Meanwhile,...

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