Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After grittily ignoring his sneezes and sniffles for several days, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 79, was bedded down in Bonn with bronchitis, a fever of 104°, a later complication of bronchial pneumonia. At week's end, he was "considerably improved," but his countrymen were chillingly reminded that der Alte cannot lead them forever...
...session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only to put out a vague statement saying that they still believed in "Europe...
...shrewdest move was designed to force Adenauer to deal with the East German satellite in spite of his determination not to: they gave East Germany control of all civilian traffic and trade between West Germany and West Berlin, which must cross East German territory. "The sooner the politicians of Bonn and West Berlin realize that they cannot undermine the East German regime, the better it will be for the populace of West Berlin," said East Germany's Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht...
...Germans asked the Russians to incorporate both reservations in the communiqué. The Russians, as the Germans had anticipated, refused. So Adenauer put them out unilaterally for the record. The Russians briskly dismissed both. "The [Bonn] Republic is part of Germany," said an official statement distributed by Tass. "Another part of Germany is the [East] German Democratic Republic." Germany's borders were settled at Potsdam, the statement added. There the wartime Allies handed the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland, pending a final peace treaty...
...Back in Bonn, when Adenauer returned, any misgivings for the future were drowned for the moment in the chorus of rejoicing over the returning prisoners. At the airport, a tiny, black-clad lady pushed through the crowd and kissed his leathery hand. "My heart thanks you!" she said (her only son had been a Russian prisoner for twelve years...