Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days of the Weimar Republic and the ugly early days of Naziism he was respected as veteran mayor of Cologne and a wily politician, until he was forced out of office by the Nazis, for whom he showed nothing but flinty...
...week the daily Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported that the weapon is at last losing some of its power. Partly because of the work of Brunswick's International Schoolbook Institute, French and German historians have begun to correlate their tunes. One case in point: Alsace-Lorraine, taken from France by Bismarck in 1871 and returned after the victories of Marshal Foch...
...same time, German students were reading this: "The voice of the [German] people demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine. After all, it was German soil bound together by centuries of German history and culture . . . Now, Bismarck took this German soil back...
Today, however, all that has changed. Says a current French textbook: "The German public almost unanimously demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine . . . This time Bismarck agreed with the German general staff and the public. All besieged France could do was to point to the protests of the Alsace-Lorraine population, based on arguments of self-determination...
...Christian Democratic Party had won a clear majority of 244 out of 487 Bundestag (lower house) seats, giving the Christian Democrats voting control even without the extra 63 votes collected by their old coalition partners, the Free Democrats and the German Party. No German politician, not even Hitler or Bismarck, had ever received such a vote of confidence from his people in a free election...