Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview with the CRIMSON in the "HICOG" office at Bonn, Conant, agreeing with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, said "the way towards German reunification in peace and freedom is by first demonstrating to the Kremlin that the western European nations are united politically, militarily and economically and are therefore strong in their support of the free world...
When the cocktail hour approached. Dulles joined his staff with a rye-on-the-rocks. At dinner conversation was light, with no shoptalk allowed. Afterwards, Foster Dulles got back to work, scanning radiograms, planning details of his Bonn and London discussions. By 9 p.m. he was snugly bedded down in his blacked-out cabin at the rear of the plane. Beside him, as always, were his yellow tablet and pencil, ready for midnight thoughts. Usually, Dulles reads himself to sleep with whodunits, but on the way to Europe he had no need for a soporific...
Disappointed Bobby-Soxers. Eight hours later, the Secretary was up and around, jotting down the statement he planned to make at Bonn's Wahn Airport. He shaved with a safety razor, an old-fashioned brush and lather. While he breakfasted on orange juice, boiled eggs and coffee, his secretary typed out the statement. When the pilot reported the ground temperature, Dulles chose a suitable ensemble (blue double-breasted suit, Homburg), being careful, as he dressed, to tuck his statement in his breast pocket. Landing in Bonn, Dulles looked tanned and completely relaxed, ready for work...
After a busy day in Bonn, the Secretary hurried on to London, bypassing Paris in what seemed a calculated rebuke to the French. At the London airport, on his way home, he was amazed to see a mooing chorus of bobby-soxers led by cheer leaders. But as Dulles climbed out of an embassy limousine, an aide explained that the youngsters had not turned out to see him off at all. They were waiting for Crooner Frankie Laine, expected on the next Paris plane. "I thought they were there to greet me," chuckled Dulles. "What a disappointment. See what fame...
...trying very hard to bring the new government down. They tried to do so in the confused EDC debate. Their big offensive failed. They have now opted for a classic gambit in the history of nations: they appealed to foreign powers. These "friends of America" messaged Washington and even Bonn that the new government had dangerous schemes in mind; they hinted that it was seeking a "neutralist" foreign policy...