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Last week sovereign West Germany got its first full-time Foreign Minister: Heinrich von Brentano...
...ever, but more quickly than usual. On Monday morning last week he visited President Heuss. tendered his own resignation as Foreign Minister (a job he has combined with the Chancellorship for four years), and nominated two key new ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather...
Family: Of Milanese origin, the Brentano di Tremezzo banking and merchant family moved into Germany in the 18th century, where they established deep cultural ties. Famed 19th century Brentanos: Bettina. friend of Goethe; Poet Clemens (The Lorelei}; Philosopher Franz; Economist Lujo; democratic Revolutionary Lorenz. Otto von Brentano. the new Minister's father, was a lawyer and statesman of the Weimar Republic; brother Clemens is now German Ambassador to Italy; onetime fellow-traveling Novelist Bernard von Brentano is another brother...
Personal Life: Youngest of six children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an admirer of Thomas Mann. Says he of cocktail parties: "When I have to go to any of them. I tell my chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator...
...curbed for ten years-returning their P.W.s, permitting them to fly their own airplanes, dismantling restrictions on trade. The Russians plainly hoped that the West Germans would be tempted to imitate the Austrian pattern-to trade a pledge of neutrality for a promise of German unity. But Heinrich von Brentano, the man who is slated to become German Foreign Minister early this month, announced last week: "Neutralism is impossible on both political and moral grounds. Germany is with the West...