Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin, balding man who walked into the Defense Ministry at Bonn was exactly what the new Bundeswehr wanted. He introduced himself as Herr Doktor Robert Schneider with degrees in medicine, philosophy, psychiatry and law. Unmarried and with a lucrative psychiatric practice in the city of Goslar, Schneider nevertheless wanted to become an army medical officer. "This will mean a personal sacri fice, but money has never been a part of my life," he said nobly. "One must have ideals...
...also have bureaucracies. The Defense Ministry, completing its routine file, needed additional documentation on Schneider's German citizenship. The city officials of Goslar could find none, and thus began the first unraveling of a forged life that resulted last week in Robert Schneider's standing trial in Bonn for 52 cases of fraud, 25 cases of falsification of documents, and various charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house painter, carpet beater...
Kilb's defenders were quick with an explanation: the company had insisted on loaning Kilb the cars to make sure that he would not inconvenience Adenauer by arriving late at top-level government appointments. The fact that Kilb might be in a position to influence the Bonn government's plans for restricting the size of trailer trucks-a subject of considerable interest to Daimler-Benz, as one of West Germany's major manufacturers of trucks-had nothing to do with the case, they said...
...shot out of the chancellery again, pulled up beside Hahlbohm's pedestal. "Give me your name," growled Franz Josef. "I shall see to it that you disappear from this corner." True to his threat, Strauss promptly fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license...
...week's end Policeman Hahlbohm was still at his accustomed post, gracefully accepting the bouquets, bottles of brandy and cheers proffered him by passing motorists. As for Franz Josef Strauss, he was still exercising the informal privilege of using the chancellery alley-but only, noted Bonn police headquarters, "after the proper signal from the policeman on duty...