Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over West Germany on New Year's Eve, candles were lit and placed in windows to burn as symbols of the nation's hopes for reunification. Nonetheless, for Bonn the German New Year began in a mood of gloom. Cried the Bild-Zeitung in banner-headline indignation: SHOWDOWN WITH THE U.S. NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW OVER REUNIFICATION...
...suggested that the Germans might really be the last to want fresh negotiations with the Russians, since this would inevitably involve discussion of West Germany's role in NATO and the future boundaries of a united Germany. Cruelly accurate, Rusk's words touched off a storm. In Bonn, the Free Democrats' Bundestag Vice President Thomas Dehler warned that Germany was being "sacrificed" to Atlantic policy. Christian Democrat Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel cried that Germany might "go it alone" if pushed too far by its allies. Erhard himself was reported upset and worried, and amid celebrations last week...
That will be only one of at least 15 changes the President is expected to make in the ranks of U.S. ambassadors. The President made it clear that major posts in Paris, London, Moscow and Bonn would not be included. But some upheaval seemed likely in upper State Department echelons too. Averell Harriman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, will probably be out before long-in fact, he has already been offered an ambassadorial post but has turned it down. And former Michigan Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who is now Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, may well...
Museums throughout Germany, announced Bonn's Treasury Ministry, will soon share in long-term loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...
...Many of Hitler's purchases were indeed paid for, but forced sales and confiscations from German Jewish art collectors and dealers were common. Most of the works have lost their pedigrees on paper (or as art historians call it, their provenance), and possible claims for restitution make the Bonn treasury officials touchily reluctant to give details...