A file of weekly reports concerning developments in West Germany between April and December 1957. The reports discuss a visit by Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister, to West Germany; and the cancellation of a return visit by Konrad Adenauer, the West German chancellor, to London due to illness. The reports also cover the holding of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Bonn; the reaction of the West German government to the Soviets' successful launch of Sputnik 1; and a motion by the Social Democratic Party of Germany calling for the West German government to renounce the arming of the West German army with nuclear weapons, and to withhold the right for foreign powers to store nuclear weapons on West German territory. Other reports comment on the year's federal election, at which Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union of Germany won an absolute majority in the West German Bundestag.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- East Germany Soviet Union West Germany
- Department Reference
- Code WG file 1013 (pp 19 to end)
- Document Type
- Reports
- File Reference
- FO 371/130687
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.130687
- Key Events
- Launch of Sputnik 1
- Note
- Contrary to the catalogue title, this file covers West Germany, but was nonetheless included in the resource.
- Pages
- 101
- Persons Discussed
- Anastas Mikoyan Christopher Steel Erich Ollenhauer Harold Macmillan Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo Konrad Adenauer Nikita Khrushchev Otto Grotewohl
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Germany (East and West)
- Themes
- Domestic Politics International Relations