Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-car private diesel train pulled out of suburban Mehlem, five miles south of Bonn, a mixed crowd of Germans and Americans cheered the ruddy-faced American waving from a coach window. John J. McCloy, 57, retiring U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, was on his way home after three long years as proconsul, diplomat and military adviser to the most battered, most divided and most important land in Europe...
...nature of things, no occupier is beloved by the occupied, but John Jay McCloy, Wall Street lawyer and wartime Assistant Secretary of War, had earned the respect of the Germans. Last week the University of Bonn made him an honorary senator. A group of German trade unionists trooped into his Schloss bringing a porcelain figurine for "an understanding friend of the German workers." McCloy went to Berlin to collect an honorary engineering doctorate. Back in Bonn, he attended the 92nd meeting of the Allied High Commission (his British and French colleagues gave him a gold cigarette case). All the time...
...more than the unfinished debate in the Bundestag, symbolized occupation's end.*As he prepared to leave, allied troops, who used to ride free on German trains and buses, began paying their way. McCloy himself, the Germans recognized, had done more than any other man to transform the Bonn Republic from the status of a defeated enemy to the role of a needed friend. As the civilian successor to U.S. Military Governor Lucius D. Clay, McCloy injected $1.15 billion of U.S. economic aid into the emaciated German economy, helped spark the industrial boom which has restored West Germany from...
After Hitler's fall, the German Foreign Office moved from Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse to a two-story barracks in Bonn, but many critics complained that ideologically, at least, the Foreign Office had not moved far enough. Cried the Bavarian radio last March: "The proportion of Nazi Party members in the present Foreign Office is now higher than it was during the Nazi regime . . . The Foreign Office is a rat's nest ..." The Bavarian radio charged that 85% of the top personnel were Nazis. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who is his own Foreign Minister) did not help matters much...
Major General Lemuel Mathewson, U.S. commander in Berlin, fired off a protest to the Soviet authorities, citing the collusion by Communist police. In Bonn, all members of the Bundestag except the Communists and the presiding officers (who have to stay) walked out on a speech by Max Reimann, the Communist leader in West Germany. Radio station RIAS cut Reimann's speech off the air, substituted music; and another station that carried Reimann's remarks in full was snowed under by complaints. West Berlin officials began installing street barriers of their own along the sector line...