Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the top U.S. diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
...incident did, however, point up the fact that there has been no U.S. ambassador in Bonn since Henry Cabot Lodge left in January. President Nixon has looked hard for a replacement, and has been turned down by at least three candidates. The situation in Bonn underscores the new Administration's difficulty in filling even the most prized ambassadorial posts. At week's end, it was reported that Nixon had finally found a man for Bonn. But even so, 18 ambassadorships remain vacant. And Nixon has retained about 60 holdovers, including the significantly high number of 18 political appointees...
...somewhat coy, albeit accurate as far as it goes. The service, as Michelin indicates, is indeed gemütlich and the food good. Eating there is also reasonable: a dinner for two can be had for $12. What the guidebook fails to mention is that Maternus, located in the Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg* is undoubtedly the most important restaurant in West Germany. Its primary bill of fare is politics, not Sauerbraten, and as the capital's gathering place for party leaders, deputies, diplomats and journalists, it belongs in the great tradition of European political cafes. Within...
...when it was merely a "wine cafe" serving Rhine wine and cold dishes. One guest, while the restaurant was a U.S. Army officers' club in 1945, was two-gun George Patton: the general candidly admired Ria's legs but never commented on the food. After Bonn became the federal capital and Ria became Maternus' sole owner, the restaurant's political era began. Konrad Adenauer liked to greet Ria, a fellow Rhinelander, in local dialect; he became a regular. Successor Ludwig Erhard became another steady; the day he succeeded der Alte as Chancellor, Ria sent...
...German press last week titillated its readers with two new tales of espionage. The first was the memoirs of KGB Lieut. Colonel Evgeny Runge, 41, who for years passed information collected from his agents through the Soviet embassy in Bonn to Moscow before defecting in 1967. The second concerns Austrian-born Rupert Sigl, who last month ended 16 years of activity for the KGB by defecting to the CIA in West Berlin. According to Die Welt am Sonntag, Sigl took with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know...