Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's statesmen none is more famed for steely determination than Konrad Adenauer, the autocratic octogenarian who has ruled West Germany for the past ten years. When Adenauer two months ago decided to turn the West German chancellorship over to a younger man, his countrymen assumed that that was that. But last week there was colossal confusion as the world learned that Adenauer, too, can change his mind. See FOREIGN NEWS, An Old Man's Impulse...
...months ago, in a decision that seemed to mark the end of a noble political era, Adenauer abruptly announced that he would give up the powerful chancellorship and retreat into the semi-retirement of West Germany's presidency. He hoped still to help influence his country's destiny, while allowing a younger man to assume the day-to-day administration of the country. Der Alte, first and only leader of the new West German democracy that rose on the ruins of Naziism, would thus ensure an orderly first transfer of power. Instead, abruptly last week, Adenauer canceled these...
...stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
Konrad Adenauer's decision to resign the German Chancellorship "may have been a Pyrrhic victory for Dr. Ludwig Erhard," Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Profesor of the Science of Government, said Wednesday...
...Adenauer may use his position as President to keep Erhard out of the Chancellorship," Friedrich said. Erhard, Minister of the Economy, is regarded by many people as the one most likely to suceed Adenauer if the latter is elected President of Germany this summer...