Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced the gist of the agreement to the Bundestag at Bonn, the news was greeted by cries of "Bravo!" and "Sehr gut!" The Western powers had actually conceded more than Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week...
...Chancellor Adenauer of the West German Republic last Wednesday signed a protocol which alters enormously the location of political and economic power in Trizonia. From now on, Germany is, except in military affairs, virtually a self-governing nation...
...only the first crisis which a powerful Germany creates in Western Europe. In every way the solidarity of the West now rests on German fulfillment of Adenauer's promise to keep the Reich disarmed and cooperative. Social Democrat Schumacher's expulsion from the Bonn Parliament yesterday for calling Adenauer "Chancellor of the Allies" is not altogether reassuring...
...Laborites enjoyed a few moments of high glee when conservative, ruddy-jowled Sir John Anderson said that he did not want to see the sort of events that followed World War I. Since Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time Sir John referred to, Labor members hooted and Churchill glowered at his shirt front. Herbert Morrison taunted both of them, and for a while Churchill and Anderson were popping up & down like marionettes to answer...
...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...