Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only seven weeks ago Adenauer had insisted that he intended to stand a fourth time for Chancellor in the 1961 elections. His own candidate for President was his Vice Chancellor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the rotund, popular engineer of the German economic miracle. But for once, the icy Adenauer eye failed to transfix his party's politicos. Rebellious Bundestag backbenchers protested that to make Erhard President would be to deprive the Christian Democratic Party of "our best vote-getter in 1961," and Erhard himself declined the offer (TIME, March 16). A successful defiance of Adenauer was something...
Taking a Hint. Most of the 62 Christian Democrats who went to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg that cold and rainy morning expected a routine session with the Chancellor. Clutching a copy of the federal republic's Basic Law, Adenauer lectured, instead, for 45 minutes on the legal and moral position of the presidential office. Some of the politicians got Adenauer's hint and asked the Chancellor directly...
...lota." Within 24 hours, the sensational news had swept across Germany. The old Chancellor, before boarding a special railway car for Italy, recorded a bitter little speech to his countrymen. It contained an odd digression. Lashing out at British "wire-pullers" almost as if the British forced him to the step, he conceded that the decision had been made "quickly-but I must say in retrospect that it was well considered and correct. My decision is intended to ensure the continuity of our policy for years to come. The position, task and work of the federal President is underestimated...
From an Eminence. Moscow's Pravda lost no time in proclaiming the Chancellor's action "involuntary," and the combination of abruptness, peevishness and pressure lent some color to the interpretation. Yet after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
...think I'm going to retire to the old folks' home." Adenauer cautioned his friends. Heuss's term as President does not end till Sept. 15. Adenauer obviously intends to have a big say in choosing and counseling the next Chancellor (who will be elected by the Bundestag). He hopes to follow the example of his friend De Gaulle in influencing events from an eminence. Perhaps he will be less influential than he foresees. Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier has already warned that "there must be no twisting of the constitution on any account," and others argue that...