Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Western powers lifted their ban on political parties in Germany, Adenauer emerged as one of the founders of the Christian Democratic...
...Christianity is indivisible. Christianity is not a shallow materialistic concept masquerading as a .life philosophy, as are Leninism and Marxism; Christianity is a dynamic spiritual force that outlives all politics. Christianity is the answer to all ideologies. The only possible hope for peace and order in Europe lies in a federated Europe based on Christian ideals...
Union. Although the C.D.U. was the direct descendant of the former Center party, there was a big difference. The Center had been almost entirely Roman Catholic; the C.D.U. broadened its base to include Protestant elements. A somewhat unwieldy conglomeration of religious groups, of Ruhr industrialists and Christian trade unionists, the C.D.U. owes its political effectiveness to Adenauer. Dignified and charming in a stately sort of way, he smoothed party crises with the silk-gloved infighting tactics he had used with his city council in Cologne. Political friends and enemies alike call...
...Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program...
Died. Helen Emily Springer, 81, who shared her Methodist bishop husband's missionary work for 44 years, traveled extensively throughout Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, where she devised the first written medium for three native languages so that she could translate Christian literature into the vernacular; in Mulungwishi, Belgian Congo...