ADENAUER SAYS U. S. SHOWED FEAR AT 'WALL'

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: November 2, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Adenauer Says U. S.
Showed Fear atVall'
By MARGUERITE HIGGINS "I believe," sslr- l?" Adeusu-
6p 101 to Tas atsr 'er, that Americans i.e clearly
BONN. Nov. 3-Dr. Konrad th't Germany Is the key to Eu-,
Adenauer, who has retired rot'' If that key falls into bads
hands, it will be bad for Eu-
f"ct!t the West German than' rope."
turlloishtp Kitt emphatically not The two-hour interview was.
fruit the international political the first the 88-year-old states-
fray. ,tvs America chewed it- man has granted to an Amer-
st It "too much atraid" of the can newspaper since he retin-i
C'cmmunists at the time of the quished the chancellorship to,
e: ^, lion of the Berlin wall in Ludwig Erhard.
August, 1961. 1 first met Dr. Adenauer, ins
;as a result of American fears, the late a u in in e r of 1945 In
the chancellor said. Bonn- Berlin. A mutual friend. Ernst'
Wasninacon relations reached, j,emmer, who later became a
t 11F it lowest ebb at that ttme.;hl,zh official himself. r e c o m-
peakiroa out frankly on mended Dr. Adenauer. then a
matters on which he had kept mere 70 years old, as an up-
Iilrut chile Tice in Germany's German politician.
h i it h e s t office, Dr. . Adena Adenaue-? -- -
reediled In an exclusive Inter- We shared a (1111Tler of spar
view that "for 60 hours after, and mashed pota:.oes.
:he Berlin wall began to go up.i Now times h:1vv chanced. but
the mayor of Berlin could not not Dr. Adenauer. His :tare,
g1 t any response out of Wash-; austere a p p e a r a n c e is only
inpton. slightly different and his vigor-
-Perhaps if some sort of pro. astonishing. He r c n1 a i n!4. of
te: t or action had been taken course. an important power as
at once, the Russians might; head of the majority Christian
have backed down. But for 601D e m o c rat I c Party and also:
hours absolutely nothing hap-serves as a member of Parlia-
pencd Even though the Rus- mdrtt.
sians had broken their treaties I Khrushchev Fears China War
anti erected the wall, the Amer-
icai s put up with it. f Dr. Adenauer revealed t tali
'The Americans even tried to as Ion ago as 195.5 3 o v i e t
tell us it was a good thing be- Premier Khri chchcv spoke to
cause the flow of refugees wa3.1+im frank:y of fears chat one
stopped. The German p e o p 1 e day Russia might find itself at'
'mere horrified. It was a ire- .vnr with Rrd China. The con-'
:ner,rlous success for Moscow. vvtsation occurred during an
The Americans were too touch' official visit the former chan
al;;ltd. You cannot imagine the cellos made to Moscow,
despair of the German people." U: Adenauer expressed the
;or.\ fiction that "Russia cannot
Questions Cuban Success
fi afford var."
Or. A d e n a u e r was risked Sc "long as the United States r m a is c P l I r
whether the success a year lat- realizes that it as the main tar- The f
er of the Cuban confrontation get f the r',ovlet TJnion aid doubted that ?.Tr i{! sus .c1 ~"
did not in effect even the score, that its interests in resisting w on i d take an:. 1,, anin;ri'
more or less, with the Russians. R ;1 s i a is encroachments are .,tops to lessor) ' t;r' ~ '!d war ;-
'Was Cuba really a success, " ,',lcal kviti: those of Europe, cent to ::et It .j I it wiiat it.
nr. Adenauer countered, point- thrn there wtl. not be a war. ,needs said. rthe t ls+ gAuie.
Inc out that the Russians still 1ie continued
seemed to be in the Caribbean. '?Khiushchev Is a .'levor. un-!1M ghat he needs to th" way
Nonet.helesS. Dr. .,Ndenauer,r-unu'ouz man..' slid Dr. Ade of wheat and +'y~emiral fac-
;aid had "hopes" That the : !lacer. "1 have told Presldentitrn'ies. frr cxarnple. without ask-+
L'nnited States would in the fu- ? K e n r dy many times not toPnc anything in return to les-
Lure react firmly to any at-' truss ;lttl . Khrushchev em-,son tensions,
1' tmpted Sovict rnctrnarhrnents. pr,as-sc:, neacctul co-exlsrr^ee; Dr, Adrnsut r "retire sment"
He l cpeattdly c m, Iui ?; : d ;=er- bectl+tse things are going badly has not sit a.r
time
many"s dcpendanrr',,;i Amt?ri-' for '11m and for the Russian day. "I take my have col.!. art even walk ." he
people. He :reeds to say these to
cc's military sllie.d uu-t said he
lained ^ I
-was sure that the, "wind States 'hin,,F to deceive his own peo-.COMP
Cun~ntm i j ti
scold ever kanuu~r.~ snake a
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