Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, Hausfrauen all over West Germany have been practicing Hofknickse (curtsies). At the Munich mint, eight gold commemorative coins had been struck; a Cologne record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward...
...Soviet Ambassador to Bonn Andrei Smirnov insolently sent out invitations to a massive reception " to celebrate the victory of the Soviet people in the great patriotic war." Acidly, the Palais Schaumburg said that attendance would show "lack of dignity." So few Germans sent back R.S.V.P.s that Smirnov formally protested the boycott to the German Foreign Ministry...
...week to emphasize their own democratic achievements and the need for reunification, for they were celebrating an event of their own -the tenth anniversary of the Paris treaties that restored West German sovereignty. Among their major allies, only Charles de Gaulle failed to send a congratulatory message. Far worse, Bonn failed to get unanimous Western backing for a new initiative on reuniting Germany. Even a routine statement hailing reunification as an admirable goal bogged down in petty quibbling. France insisted on phrases making reunification necessary not only to Germany, "but in the interests of all the peoples of Europe," thus...
...next foray abroad was to Bonn for talks with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, a free-market economist with scant affection for socialists. Wilson was attentive, polite and respectful toward German dreams of reunification, a hard line toward Moscow, and the recovery of the lands lost to Poland. Wilson did much to soften the traditional anti-German image of the Labor Party, and Erhard was considerably charmed. Britain's new leader returned home with a German promise to buy more British goods to help offset the sterling drain that results from maintenance of the British army on the Rhine...
...most fragile bit of china around Bonn recently has been the C.D.U.'s coalition with the Free Democrats, whose 67 votes provide the C.D.U. with its Bundestag majority over the Social Democrats. The alliance was cracked sadly a fortnight ago when Erhard and the C.D.U. insisted on extending the statute of limitations against Nazi war criminals. Tired of the Nazi trials, the F.D.P. opposed the new legislation on constitutional grounds, and F.D.P. Minister of Justice Ewald Bucher went so far as to resign his Cabinet post. To the Free Democrats' surprise, Erhard called the bluff, promptly replaced Bucher...