Word: chancellorship
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...Peter Brandt, son of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic candidate for the chancellorship. Just as his father was crisscrossing the country on a campaign train in search of voter support, the news broke that Peter had put his signature on a Communist front's petition accusing the U.S. of using poison gas in Viet Nam, and demanding withdrawal of American troops. It caused quite a flap for a day or two-until the boy withdrew his name. Both Sides of the Street. The octogenarian provided a more prolonged distraction. He was the Christian Democrats...
...case is impressive. For a nation without any meaningful democratic traditions, the Federal Republic's institutions are working surprisingly well-in large measure, the legacy of Konrad Adenauer's remarkable 14-year chancellorship. Politics in Bonn are contentious, abrasive and unpredictable. According to one of the opinion polls with which the Germans constantly take their own pulse, ten years ago some 30% of German voters thought power should reside in one man at the top; today only 18% still have such authoritarian longings. West Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone...
...Schlag in Vienna. The coalition was more or less forced into being to provide an alternative to the Allied occupation, and both parties chafe at it. It survives thanks to an irksome but inevitable invention called Proporz (balance of powers), under which the People's Party gets the chancellorship, but the Socialists the presidency, and every "sensitive" ministry has not only a minister, but also a state secretary from the other party to keep...
...none too early for the Christian Democrats to start building up a new candidate, whether he turns out to be Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, the fast-rising Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, or one of the party's dark horses. As for a Socialist candidate for the chancellorship, Willy Brandt, who was beaten once by Adenauer, was sure to be it again. And Willy was willing. "My work might be more needed elsewhere," he said...
...Munich newspaper, Ludwig declared his willingness to take over right now. "I would be ready to accept a call to the chancellorship if my party and the Bundestag so decided," he announced, clearly hoping that others felt as he did. After all, many of West Germany's restive politicians had been grumbling over Charles de Gaulle's courtship of der Alte, wondering whether the price of Germany's new friendship treaty with France was an unacceptable subservience to France, and whether it required siding with the French against both Britain...