WEST GERMANY: Between Two Chairs

When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rose to address a Catholic congress in Brussels last week, his audience expected to hear nothing more than an innocuous tribute to the ideal of European unity. What it got was something stronger. Said Adenauer: "In the long run, the European countries cannot fully develop their great energies ... if they continue to find their salvation and security exclusively through the patronage of the United States . . . What are vital necessities for the European countries do not always have to be vital necessities for...

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