Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn a diplomat recalled an old Polish proverb: "The Poles and the Hungarians are brothers in blood and in drink." In London a Foreign Office expert recalled a point of history. "The Poles and the Hungarians are the rebels of Eastern Europe; they were the only ones to rise up against the Austrians...
...BONN JOYCE Vineland...
...thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often quote whole pages of text. He is probably the best extempore speaker in Germany today, and he rates as the German politician with the biggest future...
...Future by the Tail. There were frank replies to other ticklish questions. The chances for a tax cut in the next year, the President said, are not "bright" or "right around the corner." To a West German correspondent, who pointed out that the Bonn Cabinet was concerned about proposed reductions in U.S. troop strength, the President made painstaking answer. Declared he: all decreases in U.S. manpower are predicated on an increase in new machines and striking power. "Never have we said we are going to reduce the strength of the American Army...
...draw up lists of citizens eligible for the draft.) Internationally, however, it seemed likely to get West Germany into hot water. Even before the week was out the North Atlantic Council, meeting in an emergency session, publicly questioned the wisdom of the Chancellor's action and formally notified Bonn that military experts were doubtful that a twelve-month conscription period would allow West Germany to fulfill her promise to NATO to raise 500,000 troops by 1960. The difference between the U.S. Radford plan and Adenauer's plan for West Germany is a crucial one-West Germany, treaty...