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Virtual y unknown to the outside world, Adenauer was selected in 1949 to
head a government for the merged western occupation zones. He was
considered "clean"—mayor of Cologne, he had been imprisoned in the
early Hitler days for opposition to the Nazis—and "safe"—at 74, he was
expected to serve quietly, co-operatively and probably briefly as a transi
tional leader. Above, Adenauer, second from right, and Ludwig Erhard,
second from left, his economics minister and eventual successor, confer
with High Commissioners John J. McCloy, United States; Ivone Kirkpat
rick, Britain, and Andre Francois-Poncet, France.
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Adenauer and a friend, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, saw eye-to-eye on the Communist menace and West
Germany rapidly became the anchor of American policy in Europe. Later, another great friendship began to develop,
right. Adenauer and cheering crowds, carrying signs in French and German calling for European unity and federation,
welcomed President De Gaulle to Bonn. But close ties between ancient enemies forged by the two strong men were to
weaken rapidly with Adenauer's retirement.
LBJ Visits
With Luebke
By ALVIN SPIVAK
United Press International
BONN (UPI) —President
Johnson today opened his first
presidential visit to Europe with
a courtesy \ill on West German
President Heinrich Luebke be
fore attending Konrad Aden
auer’s funeral and expected off
the cuff summit talks with
French and British leaders.
White House spokesmen said
the Johnson-Luebke meeting
lasted 40 minutes and covered
several topics.
The White House said Ameri
can-German relations in general
and mutual security problems
were the key Issues discussed.
Johnson arrived Sunday night
Greek Army Ships
500 To Rock Island
By DAVID L. DUGAS
Uni ( ed Press International
ATHENS (UPI) —The Greek
army has shipped off to a rocky
prison island 500 of the
Communists it blames for
starting the trouble that ended
in the military seizure of the
country, informed sources said
today.
They said a ship loaded with
political prisoners sailed Sunday
from the port of Piraeus to the
craggy isle of Yura in the
northern Aegean Sea.
Troops and police under arm
orders rounded up the Commu
nists before dawn Friday in the
first moments of the coup. The
officers said they acted to
prevent bloodshed that would
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(The Old One) was the half-mocking, half-respectfuT nickname his f
countrymen gave Konrad Adenauer, the man with the granite features
and will who, at an age when most men end their active careers, took |
on the task of rebuilding a war-shattered nation. For 14 years--longer |
than his predecessor, Adolf Hitler—he governed. His accomplishments |
were many—a functioning democracy, the "Economic Miracle," recon
ciliation and full partnership with the Western Allies. But the final |
triumph eluded him—reunification of divided Germany. |
from Washington with Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and other
officials for the funeral of the
former West German chancellor
and meetings with French
President Charles de Gaulle and
British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson.
After seeing Luebke, Johnson
was walking several hundred
yards to the next door
chancellory for his first visit
with Chancellor Kurt-Georg
Kiesinger.
Both meetings had been
expected to be purely diploma
tic calls. Neither was expected
to wrestle with the problems
that have recently begun to
trouble the Washington-Bonn
friendship.
have resulted from a Salonika
demonstration called by former
Premier George Papandreou
now under arrest. They said the
grizzled, 78-year-old arch foe of
King Constantine planned to call
a “peoples revolution’’ at
Salonika, Greece’s second lar
gest city.
Fear Salonika Meeting
A spokesman for the new
army-backed regime said police
could not cope with the Salonika
situation. He said leaders of a
long planned army coup decided
the time had come to act.
The army acted in Constan
tine’s name. There was some
speculation the 26-year-old ath
lete king may have been an
unwilling accomplice to the
coup. He has not been seen in
public of heard from since
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RAY CROMLEY
Viet Courage, U.S. Arms
Make Victory Inevitable
By RAY CROMLEY
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
It is frequently said victory cannot be won in Vietnam.
It is claimed the best the United States can hope for is some
uneasy compromise that will enable us to get out.
This is not true. If history plus courage are any base, the
United States and the South Vietnamese can achieve victory
in this war.
The victory meant here is the creation of an independent,
self-governing, economically stable South Vietnam ruled by
a relatively democratic government and not easily susceptible
to internal subversion.
With some degree of success these aims were achieved
with U.S. co-operation in Japan, West Germany and the
Philippines, not perfectly for sure. But these countries
stand well in these lines compared with lands on the other
side of the Iron Curtain, and that’s what the choice is. They
compare well, too, with most countries in the free world.
Economically, South Vietnam is basically a rich country.
Rice grows well in the lush delta area. Even with primitive
farming, in peacetime the area is a heavy rice exporter.
With some technical assistance, yields can be doubled, giving
the South Vietnamese an export base for buying the equip
ment they need for building a strong small industry.
Politically, the South Vietnamese individually have a great
deal of common sens<k The major disadvantage is the low
scale of education, less than three years for the average
country villager. Great efforts are-being made to get every
child to go to six years of school. Much U.S. money and effort
is going into this. Though it seems full of frustrations at
times, the program is going ahead.
Nevertheless, even today, the average uneducated country
South Vietnamese, though ignorant, has a great interest in
politics, perhaps because of the long war and the propaganda
he gets from all sides.
This reporter has talked to many of these country people.
Many are hazy about what they want the government to do.
But they do want a change. They see the vote as away to
get that change. They seem quick to learn. My guess is that
they’re going to surprise us.
The South Vietnamese have a great deal of courage.
Despite the tens of thousands of Viet Cong terrorist acts in
the last decade, men are willing to take leadership in rural
hamlets even when they know their chance of lasting oul
their term alive is less than 50-50.
South Vietnamese politicians have shown they are not
afraid to stand up against the military, even while the
military is in the saddle.
No Vietnamese leader this reporter talked to in South
Vietnam was afraid of the struggle ahead or feared for the
outcome. This was true of national leadership, ft was also
true in the countryside.
With such courage and determination no country can fail
—especially when backed by strong U.S. military and civilian
aid —however many bumbles are made along the way.
Friday.
Regime spokesman Nicholas
Farmaki told newsmen, “The
king is not being held at
gunpoint. If he had not liked it,
he could have left. But he
signed the decree appointing
these ministers (the new
regime).’’
Return To Normal
At Madrid, the King’s sister,
Princess Sophia, arrived after
being delayed in Athens by the
coup for two days. She told
newsmen Sunday night “Greece
is calm, as far as I could see,
and the royal family is living in
perfect conditions.”
In Athens, the official Athens
news agency quoted new
Premier Constantine Kollias,
former supreme court chief
prosecutor, as saying absolute
calm and order prevailed over
the country.
Life in Athens appeared
returning to normal. Shots,
apparently fired to drive
loiterers home, popped during
the 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., curfew.
But schools were reopening
today as were the stock market
and banks.
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TOKYO (UPI) —Negotiations
are in progress for the
Japanese government to build
and possibly staff a neuro
surgery wing in a hospital at
Cho Rai, South Vietnam, it was
disclosed Thursday.
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hat on a visit to the LBJ
Ranch, but U.S.-West Ger
man relations lost much of
the old magic after Eisen
hower and Dulles. Ade
nauer's grip slipped at home,
too, and in 1963 he was
forced into retirement as
chancellor, although he re
mained a power behind the
scenes.
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Smith Says LBJ
Victim Os Worst
‘Vilification’
NEW YORK (UPI) —Pulitzer
prize-winning reporter Merri
man Smith said today that
President Johnson has had to
bear “some of the worst
vilification —even obscenity —
that I’ve seen or heard” in 25
years of covering the White
House.
Smith addressed nearly 800
publishers and their wives at
the annual United Press Inter
national subscribers’ breakfast,
the first event of the 81st
convention of the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel.
“At the so-called peace
demonstration in New York’s
Central Park the other day,”
Smith said, “there were grown
men carrying signs which
openly and plainly challenged
the President’s normalcy —
mentally and sexually.”
Concerned Over Anarchy
The veteran UPI White House
correspondent expressed dismay
at buttons which say ■ “Lee
Harvey Oswald, where are you
now that we neew you?” and
pamphlets and books which
allege that President Johnson
engineered the death of Pres
ident Kennedy.
“This is not enlightened social
change, or legitimate dissent or
revolution. It is anarchy, born
of a highly permissive atmos
phere in which freedom, at
times, seems to be working
against the very things for
which freedom supposedly
stands."
Donald J. Brydon, UPl’s
general manager for Asia, flew
from Tokyo to tell the
publishers about the complex
new field of “China watching.”
This is the coverage of
situations in Communist China
from Tokyo, Taipei and Hong
Kong because of the Communist
ban on reports from Peking,
and he said there is no lack of
information through other sour
ces from behind the bamboo
curtain.
“The problem Is evaluation —
what is fact and what is
propaganda . . . significant and
trivial,” he said.
Mims Thomason, beginning
his sixth year as president of
UPI, presented the annual
report to the service’s subscri-
Westmoreland Says
Protests, Cease-Fire
Hurt US In Vietnam
By PERRY YOUNG
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI) —Gen.
William C. Westmoreland, pre
dicting “some of the bitterest
fighting of the war.” in the
months ahead, today charged
that cease-fires and protest
demonstrations aided the Com
munists.
The U.S. military commander
in Vietnam, in the United States
for the first time in six months,
told the nation’s newspaper
publishers that the military
situation in Vietnam is favora
ble but that the end is not yet in
sight.
“Regretably,” he said, “I see
signs of enemy success in the
world arena which he cannot
match on the battlefield.
“He does not understand that
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"UPI enters its 61st year
serving 6,480 subscribers worl
dwide, a net gain of 213 in the
past 12 months,” Thomason
said. “In the U.S., we now serve
1,180 newspapers, a net gain of
23 over a year ago. In the
broadcast field, UPI serves
3,078 domestic subscribers, a
net gain of 96 in the past year.”
UPl’s president reported that
the operating costs for the
company totaled $47,640,000 in
1966, representing an increase
of $1,600,000 over the previous
year.
American democracy is founded
on debate, and he sees every
protest as evidence of crum
bling morale and diminishing
resolve.
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“Thus, discouraged by repeat
ed military defeats but encou
raged by what he believes to be
popular opposition to our effort
in Vietnam, he is determined to
continue his aggression from
the north.
This, inevitably, will cost lives
—American, Vietnamese, and
those of our other brave allies.”
Westmoreland addressed a
luncheon at the opening day of
the 18st annual meeting of the
American Newspaper Publish
ers Association at the Waldorf-
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