Word: bonnes
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...Wunderkind. The son of a successful Rhineland lawyer, Abs studied law at Bonn University, but quit to learn banking. After apprenticeships in Paris, Amsterdam, London and New York, he joined a private banking house in Berlin in 1929 and quickly attracted attention by his grasp of international finance. His appointment in 1937 as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department established him at 36 as the Wunderkind of German banking. Though he is a devout Catholic and did not join the Nazi Party, Abs, as a top banker, was inevitably involved in the Nazis' financial wheeling...
...promising to hand over to the Russians her boss's telegrams; thinking it over, she took her problem to the U.S. authorities, who promptly broke up the plot. In another case of blackmail, an East German girl named Rosalie Kunze was forced to serve as a spy in Bonn's Ministry of Defense or risk exposure of her recent abortion; for months, as secretary to the deputy chief of West Germany's navy, she pumped classified documents to the Communists; but when she finally confessed, her information led to the arrest and conviction of at least...
...Living with a foreign family while studying at the universities of Bonn, Caen or Madrid during the junior year's fall and winter quarters. No vacation, the stint involves four daily hours of classroom study, intense language training and a strong dose of cultural shock. "A college can no longer give a broad education in its little oasis," says Hicks. "We're trying to use the whole world as our campus...
...they will hear Kennedy point out what must seem a new and daring, if not preposterous, idea to Russians worried over West German revanchism: that Bonn's membership in NATO is much preferable to an independent, nationally-minded West German military establishment. Kennedy said--and quite rightly--that West Germany's nine divisions are under the command of 15 other NATO nations, and that these other nations themselves have 22 or 23 divisions on German soil. A divided and militarily second-rate Germany may be a cause for some worry--Kennedy seemed to be saying--but not cause...
...commercial contact with East Germany; Adenauer demurred, on the ground that any further relationship would approach de facto recognition of the Ulbricht regime. The two disagreed on the need for closer ties between West Berlin and West Germany; Kennedy argued that any further efforts to tie the city to Bonn might stir the Soviets into fresh reprisals. As gently as he could, Kennedy suggested that Adenauer should start to groom a successor; Adenauer merely promised to think the matter over...