Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was London. Germany, in the previous 24 hours, had poured out its emotions, too. There the President's car had been a Mercedes-Benz 300, and his greeting came from towns-Troisdorf, Plittersdorf, Bonn-that had been conquered by the U.S. First Army. But in old foe Germany, as in old ally Britain, the crowds made plain their confidence in Dwight Eisenhower as the free-world leader best qualified to quest for peace based upon strength and principle. Everywhere, the banners proclaimed, WE TRUST YOU and WE RELY...
...Force Boeing 707 jet, accompanied by Chris Herter, the President left Maryland at 3:57 one morning last week, touched down in Newfoundland for a refueling and coffee stop, swept on across the Atlantic to land at Cologne-Bonn's Wahn Airport at 6:30 p.m. Bonn time. Bundeswehr artillery fired a 21-gun salute; a band played The Star-Spangled Banner and Deutschlandlied. Old Chancellar Konrad Adenauer, erect and brisk, stepped forward to greet the President, hailed the U.S. as "the standard-bearer of freedom." The President replied: "The name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination...
Into the Highlands. That evening the President left Bonn, sent a farewell message over his jet's radio to Konrad Adenauer: DEAR FRIEND-I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW GRATEFUL I AM. An hour and a half later, he was at London Airport, shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In an off-the-cuff arrival speech that brought murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which...
Even De Gaulle's new friends, the Germans, were upset at what they considered France's upstage attitude. An influential group of Christian Democrats in Bonn wired Konrad Adenauer-vacationing in northern Italy-a plea to intervene in Paris. Warned the influential Die Welt: "Let us hope that De Gaulle's policies will never force us to choose between France and the U.S., for in that case we would have to say goodbye to France. We would say so with a bleeding heart. But goodbye it would...
Before Sailing. In Bonn, West Germany, new fire instruction signs in a nine-story parliament building read: "It is forbidden to jump out of top-floor windows without authorization of professional fire brigade...