Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian. He is against the Russians because they don't believe in God." Said West German President Theodor Heuss in what was interpreted in Bonn to be a pointed criticism of Dulles' diplomacy: the West should "disentangle" itself from the "web of slogans and ideologies." And in London, when an expatriate American university professor told an audience of 2,000 British schoolchildren, "If Mr. Dulles resigned tomorrow, he would be making the greatest contribution...
Happiest of all were the West Germans who, along with many other Europeans, were convinced that Konrad Adenauer had been the star of the show. Even the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, ordinarily hostile to Adenauer's Christian Democrats, hailed the old Chancellor as "the rock of Bonn ... a brilliant tactician who can credit himself with having given the conference the twist that allowed all participants to go home satisfied...
...Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending a high-level emissary to Bonn to ask West Germany to plead Israel's case with the other NATO nations, almost was forced to resign when left-wing members of the Cabinet raised...
...hour of the NATO summit conference approached, the statesmen and diplomats of the West scurried about like ants. Danish Premier Hans Christian Hansen flew into Bonn. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano conferred in Rome before flying to Washington, hot on the heels of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was loading his briefcase for a quick trip to Paris...
...these moderates (who include Bremen's Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt) have their way, the party's old nationalization program will be put into storage, and policymaking will be shifted from the hands of party bureaucrats based in Bonn to a larger body of more flexible Social Democratic leaders in closer touch with the voters, and with a more pragmatic approach to practicalities. Above all, the reformers intend that the party shall not go to the people again in 1961 with Erich Ollenhauer, a two-time loser, as its candidate for the chancellorship...