Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Bonn TIME'S Bureau Chief Jim Bell reported...
...false assumption, and that no nation-including the U.S.-had the mass or energy to move the Soviet leaders against their will. In Moscow he had desperately accepted a bad bargain, swapping diplomatic recognition for the release of a handful of war prisoners. His intimates say he returned to Bonn last September feeling he had been broken by blackmail and hating himself for it. Three weeks later, weary, downhearted and restless, he took a lonely walk one foggy night along the murky Rhine, hands clasped behind his back. Next day he came down with bronchial pneumonia...
Acting on instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant made a special call on West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn one day last week. His mission: to hand Adenauer a German translation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' proposals for expanding the political and economic roles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (TIME, April 30). This, Conant told Adenauer gravely, should be regarded as a major statement of U.S. policy...
...bows to no man as a politician, has a tounded his audience by capering out and saying he is ready to cut taxes by $300 million, even after promising a cool billion for new farm subsidies. And how will he raise it? It's an open secret in Bonn that he will just get the Chancellor to let him use the greater part of the $2.1 billion earmarked for defense spending this year. The new army is so far behind schedule, all agree, that it could not spend the money anyway...
...Business wants no new defense industry to dislocate the country's roaring prosperity. Hardfisted Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer has decided that a mere 5.5% of the gross national product is a sufficient contribution for defense costs, and last week refused again to kick in the $760 million that Bonn has hitherto paid for support of the Allied troops who constitute the country's only defense...