Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Germany is the world's second largest trader after the U.S. Yet German political influence is not remotely equal to its economic power. In foreign affairs, Bonn is subservient not only to Washington, but often to London and Paris, and it moves uncertainly in the rest of the world; during the recent Middle Eastern imbroglio, West Germans felt that they were kicked around even by the Arabs...
...model monarchs for such an undertaking.* Yet somehow the visit got off to a chilly start as heavy rains and mothball size hailstones pelted the top-hatted German Cabinet, waiting with President Heinrich Lübke and Erhard for Elizabeth's airplane to touch down at the Bonn-Cologne airport. The sun came out before she landed, but squishing along the soggy red carpet, and then splashing through puddles to inspect her 270-man guard of honor from the German air force, navy and army, the Queen grimaced with distaste...
...British advisers might have recommended a bit more warmth of approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
Elizabeth must have read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
Squads of security police stormed into the magazine's Hamburg head quarters and its bureau in Bonn, ransacking files and arresting everyone in sight. Publisher Rudolf Augstein was held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched...