Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Paris, Acheson moved on to Bonn, where crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at first suspected that Kennedy's noise about Cuba had more to do with the election than with the progress of the cold war with Russia, and he rather liked the idea; it was the kind of thing that the old man might have done himself. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took a different view, worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer...
...word at Bonn's Palais Schaumburg one morning last week was that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seemed to be in a terrible mood. Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it. At noon a cable signed Schröder was placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons...
Bucking the Market. As his empire grew, so did Weston's reputation as a fearsome international competitor. In 1958, when word leaked out that he had his eye on Germany, 24,000 West German grocers petitioned the Adenauer government to keep him out. Hustling over to Bonn, Weston put his case to Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "You need a man like me,'' Weston told him. "I'm a specialist in keeping down the cost of living." Erhard gave Weston the go-ahead-and a signed copy of the latest Erhard opus, Prosperity Through Competition. Within...
...meaning Western rights in East Berlin-has become a fiction. He suggests that, instead of clinging to this fiction, the West concentrate on securing West Berlin, with growing participation by West Germany. He also proposes a plebiscite in which West Berliners could declare whether they want closer ties to Bonn and the continued presence of Allied forces. In return. Brandt would increase contacts with the East German regime...
...growled no to almost the entire list of suggestions. He seemed more receptive than before to the idea of an inter national access authority, but he thought the plebiscite idea was just plain silly, utterly rejected the idea of making West Berlin a part of West Germany and stationing Bonn troops there. Adenauer's reasoning: any West German participation in the defense of Berlin will undermine the concept of four-power occupation control of the city, which, fiction or not, he still considers the basis of Western presence in Berlin...