WESTERN EUROPE: Step Forward

Last week, in Europe, the West completed a long contemplated step forward, and the Communists stepped back. By 32 to 2, The Netherlands' Senate became the final parliament to ratify the Paris accords, rearming 500,000 West Germans within a Western European Union. Next week, at a full-dress NATO meeting in Paris, the Germans will be accepted as partners in the Atlantic Alliance. The biggest remaining snag—Franco-German differences over a Saar steel mill—was ironed out last week when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met in Bonn and disposed of the awkward details.

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