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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...
...Promise. Early last week, on the eve of Erhard's departure for the U.S., Adenauer assured him that no decision on the chancellorship would be taken in his absence. Same day, Adenauer once again promised the Christian Democratic Executive Committee that he would run in the presidential election "unless new developments force me to reconsider." Less than 48 hours later Adenauer discovered some "new developments." What were they? The Geneva talks-which to the naked eye had not changed a bit. Wrote Adenauer to top Christian Democratic brass: "If the Geneva conference does produce some success, we will have...
...Adenauer, though complaining privately that they had been treated like "lackeys." The damage was not that easily ended: Adenauer had proved his power but at the expense of his prestige. Overnight, throughout West Germany, Adenauer's popularity fell. Many accused him of downgrading both the presidency and the chancellorship by his autocratic actions. "Disgraceful," cried Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt. Even his chosen heir. Finance Minister Etzel, informed that Adenauer was now thinking of asking him to run for President, irately snapped: "Next thing you know, Adenauer is going to nominate me for Pope...
...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...