Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruffled the papers on the table. From the West Germans, the U.S., Britain and France were asking military contributions to European defense. In return, they would take almost all controls off West Germany and give her almost complete sovereignty. Getting down to the specifics of this bargain in Bonn last week, the Big Three found West German attention distracted by East German suggestions that they forget soldiering, and, instead, join up in one big, united, neutral Germany (TIME...
...last week of the Jewish year 5711, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, waxy-pale and dressed in funereal black coat and striped trousers, gravely strode to the rostrum in Bonn's Bundeshaus. Speaking for new Germany at its best, the 75-year-old Christian Democrat offered a measure of atonement for old Germany at its worst...
Intent on his manuscript, Adenauer read on: "The Federal [Bonn] government is prepared jointly with representatives of Jewry and the State of Israel. . . to bring about a solution of the material reparation problem in order to facilitate the way to a spiritual purging of unheard-of suffering . . ." At this point Richter, the neo-Nazi, stomped from the chamber. But when Adenauer finished his address, the rest of the Bundestag rose in a standing ovation. As Adenauer hurried off the rostrum, speakers for all major parties came forward to echo and endorse his sentiments. All, that is, but the Communists...
...Bonn's heartening gesture to the Jews-though it persisted in the theory that Hitler's deeds were done "in the name of the German peoples" rather than by them-was unquestionably motivated in part by Germany's guilty conscience. It was also the result of Israeli and allied pressure. Last spring the Israeli government (which refuses to speak directly to Germany) demanded, in notes to the Big Four powers, $1.5 billion in reparations from West Germany to help pay the cost of resettling Jews in Israel. Most likely form of payment, if & when a German-Israeli...
Last week, Bonn signed the one-year treaty the Reds wanted, providing for the exchange of $120 million worth of goods. In return, the Reds agreed to lift their creeping blockade of Berlin. As a first step they dropped the $75 road tax to $2.50. The West waited for the other barriers to come down...