Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprised by the strength of the new "Bonn-Paris axis," keenly aware of the suspicion of British motives silently felt by De Gaulle and loudly proclaimed by Konrad Adenauer fortnight ago (TIME, April 20), Britain was increasingly aware that it stood in danger of becoming odd man out in Western Europe. "It can safely be said," declared a French TV commentator on the eve of Debré's visit to London, "that the Entente Cordiale is dead." Actually, the half-century-old "understanding" between France and Britain was hardly dead, but it was no longer so cordial...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to withdraw to the comparative quietude of his nation's presidency-a decision he acknowledged had been made quickly-symbolically ended an era in postwar German history. More important, it laid bare the long-mounting restlessness of his political followers raising important questions for the future. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Old Man Steps Aside...
Taking a Hint. Most of the 62 Christian Democrats who went to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg that cold and rainy morning expected a routine session with the Chancellor. Clutching a copy of the federal republic's Basic Law, Adenauer lectured, instead, for 45 minutes on the legal and moral position of the presidential office. Some of the politicians got Adenauer's hint and asked the Chancellor directly...
...consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position without even asking how Bonn felt about...
...Adenauer is elected to the Presidency--and it seems certain that he will be, for the President is elected by a Convention in which his Christian Democratic Union will have a majority--there may also be some significant, though unwritten constitutional changes in the Bonn Republic. Adenauer has said that he intends to keep a firm grip on foreign affairs, an implication that he will be more active than is the present cultivated professor of classics who holds the office. And the Bonn "Constitution" gives the President a vague and as yet undefined voice in external matters: "The Federal President...