Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every good German is an abiding conviction that as a succulent symbol of wellbeing, there is nothing to equal the sausage. Some Frenchmen maintain that when Germans cannot sleep, they count sausages rather than sheep. In West Germany last week, as 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free-enterprising West Germany than...
...Socialist charges that Adenauer and the Christian Democrats were leading Germany in the direction of a one-party state (their principal campaign accusation), Adenauer snapped: "Look at the record," pointed out that while Erich Ollenhauer and his Social Democrats had voted as a bloc on 162 ballots during the last Bundestag session, the Christian Democrats and their supporters had split on more than 100. "Who did they say was not democratic?" snorted Adenauer. "We do not impose ironclad discipline on our members." Then Adenauer hit out at the Socialists on foreign policy. "We stand by NATO and above...
While Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew off to enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...
...FREEDOM TO REFORM THE CHURCH: The church in every age must undergo reformation and "boldly face the mass of revolutionary facts of her time. Among these are anti-Christian ideologies, political turmoil, social ruthlessness, ethical relativism ... In this situation the Church cannot be content with timid lamentations...
...current issue of the Christian Century the Rev. Charles Granville Hamilton of Booneville Episcopal Mission in Mississippi urges Protestants to commemorate St. Bartholomew's Day with penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists...