Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before & After Göring. There was little room in the parliament chamber for the Germans who had come to Bonn for the event. Outside the great glass windows, temporary, football-type bleachers had been erected (see cut). There, under tarpaulin in the drizzle, the Germans sat looking in at their parliament...
...four months the shiny, glass-walled, neon-lighted German parliament building (Bundeshaus) at Bonn on the Rhine had been doubled in size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage...
Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
...Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program...