Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
...published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers' row. "The world is full of audiences," says Savoie Lottinville, "and we look to the whole...
...Bonn last week scholarly, white-haired Professor Theodor Heuss, 75, stepped down after serving his constitutional limit of two five-year terms in the largely honorific office of President of West Germany. By so doing, he added a page to German history: never before had the German people witnessed the spectacle of an elected chief of state peaceably surrendering power to his duly elected successor...
...role that combined old memories with new trust, the President carried a special strength for NATO. Stopping off at Bonn, he said that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer symbolized "freedom," and at once Adenauer was unchallengeable in West Germany. He went on TV with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see The Presidency), gave an undeniable push to Macmillan's reelection. The President and France's President Charles de Gaulle clasped hands as men of honor, and NATO's recent rifts were forgotten; De Gaulle later messaged the President: "I very much hope to be able...
...Bonn, Ike's 23-hour stay was a political windfall for canny old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party. German Socialists dourly noted the President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...