WEST GERMANY: Partner with Cash

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Schaffer's plan has the full backing of Konrad Adenauer as a short-range measure, though for political reasons, Adenauer believes, West Germany owes it to her NATO partners to build its own arms industry in time. Explained one Adenauer intimate: "The British and our other competitors for export markets won't like the idea of our buying arms forever. They have to spend money and plant space for arms production while we utilize ours for export goods. It is hardly fair to enter a horse in a race and expect him to carry less weight than his rivals."