Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past year official and quasi-official groups in West Germany have intensified their talk about reunification with the Soviet sector. Spearheading this drive is the Bonn government's official Ministry for All German Affairs, which, in addition to co-ordinating the activities of other groups, carries on a fairly extensive propaganda campaign itself. Perhaps the next most active organization is the one responsible for the Augsburg poster and many similar ones all over Germany: "Germany Indivisible--the People's Movement for Reunification." Formed last year by some of the country's leading political figures, the group stepped...
This fear of rocking the boat is the dominant mood in West Germany today. For those afraid of a deal between Bonn and Moscow it is a reassuring mood, but for Germans who worry about the future of their nation it is an ominous mood. Many of them fear that Germany is already irreparably divided...
...their native Germany, though they had no chance of such a choice. Actually, they were choosing to begin a long and tortuous quarrel within the Western family. France warned in advance that if the Saar voted nein, French control would go on as before. Sincere men in Paris and Bonn had done their best, but now the old wound was open and throbbing again...
...Saarlanders' choice became clear, the champions of Europeanization were first to dramatize its impact. Saar Premier Johannes Hoffmann, figurehead of the Saar-for-Europe movement, promptly resigned. From his sickbed in Bonn, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, urgent advocate of a vote for Europeanization, was said to be "deeply disturbed," and he called his Cabinet into emergency session to consider what to do next...
...give Berliners a lift, and show that they are not forgotten, Bonn decided last May to send them West Germany's most cherished possession: the Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament). It was reckoned that a meeting in Berlin of the democratically elected Bundestag would throw a massive challenge at Soviet despotism and its stooge East German government. Last week West Berlin got the Bundestag-its first look at a democratic Parliament in 22 years-but the effect was less than expected...