TROOPS IN GERMANY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 17

TROOPS IN GERMANY

U.S. To Seek Payment (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) BONN. Nov. 21. Some tough bargaining is expected in talks opening today between top American and West German officials, in which Germany will be asked to help in

halting the drain on United States gold reserves. The problem of a West German contribution towards the cost of maintaining American troops in Germany will probably prove the main difficulty. The two-and-a-half day talks open with a meeting between the West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, and the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Mr Robert Anderson, and the Under-Secretary of State, Mr Douglas Dillon The talks follow President Eisenhower’s announcement last week of a drastic programme for cutting costs abroad to reduce by 1.000 million dollars the United States balance of payments deficit of 4,000 million dollars a year.

West Germany is expected to propose a plan for about £291 million worth of long-term aid to underdeveloped countries—about four times more than she has given in the past. Mr Anderson has said he will discuss the costs of maintaining American troops in Germany as well as aid to under-develooed countries. But West German Government circles said the Government would resist any proposal for a bilateral agreement with the United States on stationing costs.

Joyita Mystery.—Mrs Beatrice Miller, the wife of the captain of the 70-ton vessel Joyita, whose crew and passengers mysteriously disappeared in the Pacific in 1955, will tomorrow ask to be officially declared a widow in Cardiff, the "Daily Express” said today.—London, November 21.