Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, a bachelor at 51, the Herr Professor was back in the U.S. But behind him this time stood the growing importance of the Bonn Republic. The Wehrmacht lieutenant was now Bonn's first Secretary of State and, in all but name, Foreign Minister of the new West German Republic. His destination was not a prison camp but Washington's Georgetown University, where he was scheduled to deliver a lecture...
...good German," and hustled home after V-E Day to help remake his country. Elected rector of Frankfurt University, he was busy trying to run a university of penniless students and wrecked buildings when his phone rang one day in the spring of 1950. The call summoned Hallstein to Bonn. There Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked: "What do you know about the Schuman Plan?" Replied the professor candidly: "Something less than there has been in the newspapers." Hallstein emerged from the Chancellery as chief of Germany's Schuman Plan delegation...
Several West German Communist papers, warned by the North Rhine-Westphalia press commission to curb their tongues or risk suspension, were trying out a bowdlerized brand of Newspeak this week. In place of standard party-line invective against the Bonn government and the Western Powers, editors were substituting strategically located five-dot blanks. Sample from Düsseldorf's Freies Volk: "The Prague District Organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia unanimously condemns the disgraceful action on the part of the representatives of the . . . . . Bonn Government which stands in the service of Truman's. . . . . and is trying...
...Naked Heart. The Beethoven of 1809 was 39, and already the famed composer of the mighty "Eroica," the "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" sonatas. He was a self-made man risen from low birth-his father was a drunken court musician in Bonn-to lofty republican ideals. He was also a man tortured by a bad stomach and that most "terrible affliction" of a musician, deafness. The deafness left its mark early. At 31 he confided in letters to a friend: "I fled from men, had to appear a misanthropist, though I am far from being one ... I scarcely hear those...
...name in the Bundestag lobby list; they led him off through a basement window to a waiting car, to avoid photographers out front. He went quietly, freely admitting his B deception. A shocked Bundestag committee quickly lifted his parliamentary immunity. The charges brought against him as he sat in Bonn jail: forgery of documents, unauthorized job-holding, use of false name and-a grave offense in Germany-unauthorized use of a Ph.D...