Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva gloom was lightened by hopes of results from Premier Nikita Khrushchev's two-week visit to the U.S. starting in mid-September, Dwight Eisenhower's visit to the U.S.S.R. later in the fall, and the President's' trip this month to London and Paris (Bonn was added later...
...give point to his promise, the President made plans to fly to Europe in late August for talks with West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London, and with France's President Charles de Gaulle in Paris. While in Paris, Ike will meet with Italy's Premier Antonio Segni and Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, NATO's Council President Joseph Luns and Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak...
...obedient satellite world of Eastern Europe, the press was quick to crow, "A Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...
...party itself. But tempers were high, even among many Adenauer supporters, as Gerstenmaier set July i as the date, and West Berlin as the place, for elections for the presidency (this too was in defiance of Adenauer, who thought that a Bundestag session convened in Berlin instead of Bonn would be considered provocation by the Russians...