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...unbait the "two Germanys" trap, Adenauer dispatched Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano to Washington this week with the urgent appeal that Western powers stick to their insistence on German reunification...
...politically this was impossible, and Adenauer's advisers knew it. With West Germans eagerly awaiting news of their imprisoned sons and brothers, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano reminded the Chancellor: "We cannot go down in history as the delegation that left too soon." Adenauer agreed to try one last appeal to the Russians...
Fast & Frank. In the marbled, white-and-gold music room of Spiridonovka palace (once a Czarist millionaire's mansion), the antagonists faced off. Bulganin, flanked by Khrushchev and Molotov, sat with the morning sun at his back. Chancellor Adenauer, with Foreign Minister Brentano at his elbow, sat facing them...
...published an interesting profile of Germany's new Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the June 20 issue . . . The Lorelei was not written by [his forebear] Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...
...Clemens Brentano created the Lorelei fable on which Poet Heine based his most famous poem...