Word: chancellor
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Perched on the trunk of a taxicab at Broad and Chancellor streets, Mrs. Alberta Taylor, a retired schoolteacher, gazed with admiration at the massive throng-bigger, said some, than the crowds that turned out to mark the end of World War II-and declared: "It's been so long since we've had anything to root for in Philadelphia. I'm so excited and proud...
...collapsed in the face of Nazism, Germans have worried about their ability to build a stable, democratic political system. The latest political crisis to confront the Federal Republic should do much to allay those fears. Less than two weeks after Willy Brandt stunned his countrymen by suddenly resigning as Chancellor, a new government was functioning smoothly in Bonn. Last Thursday, in the modern and austere Bundestag chambers, Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, 55, took the oath as West Germany's fifth Chancellor...
...seats in his coalition Cabinet in almost the same ratio as they were in Brandt's: eleven Social Democrats and four Free Democrats. About half of the incumbent Ministers retained their portfolios. The most significant change was the departure of Free Democrat Chief Walter Scheel as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Last week he was elected to a five-year term as West Germany's President, a ceremonial office with little real power...
Scheel's successor as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister is another Free Democrat: portly, bumptious Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 47, possibly the least likely top diplomat in West German history. Genscher has virtually no experience in foreign affairs and speaks only German. As Minister of the Interior since 1969, he encouraged modernization of German police departments and established a strong law-and-order image by capturing the Baader-Meinhof gang of bomb-throwing anarchists. Genscher lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and began a tough program to protect the environment. In an April poll, he ranked just behind...
Missing, at least initially, will be the personal warmth and deep mutual respect that characterized the relationship of the former Chancellor and his Foreign Minister. Socialist Schmidt has never had much love for Genscher, a free-enterprise conservative, and may be tempted to take advantage of Genscher's link with the Gunter Guillaume spy scandal that triggered Brandt's resignation. In May 1973 Genscher, who as Interior Minister was responsible for internal security, told Brandt that Guillaume, one of the Chancellor's personal aides, might be spying for the East Germans. As the only Cabinet-level official...