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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times correspondent, Adenauer said for publication what he had been telling political cronies for weeks: although Erhard is a "very talented man," he has not enough political experience to be Chancellor now. Moreover, Adenauer denied that Erhard-generally accepted as his successor-even has a majority of the Christian Democratic Party behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Swelling Storm | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

High Tempers. The Christian Democrats hesitated to split away from the old man; in so doing, they would risk destroying the party itself. But tempers were high, even among many Adenauer supporters, as Gerstenmaier set July i as the date, and West Berlin as the place, for elections for the presidency (this too was in defiance of Adenauer, who thought that a Bundestag session convened in Berlin instead of Bonn would be considered provocation by the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Swelling Storm | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Until last week the Christian Democrats did not even have a presidential candidate. After Adenauer rejected the post, an array of others refused to run. Finally, Adenauer got reluctant assent to run from his obscure Minister of Agriculture, the 64-year-old Heinrich Lübke, a Roman Catholic like Adenauer. Liübke has a clean prewar record-he was jailed by Hitler-and is generally popular, although, as the Neue Rhein Zeitung put it: "Until now, his name has been mentioned mainly in relation to the price of butter and the hog surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Swelling Storm | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Technically, the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners have the votes to put Lübke in, but he faces a genuine threat in the brilliant and scholarly presidential candidate of the Social Democrats, Carlo Schmid. Adenauer's party whips were hard at work rounding up pledges for Lübke, fearing that Christian Democrats who resent Adenauer's recent moves, but have not dared oppose him openly, might take advantage of a secret ballot to vote for Socialist Schmid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Swelling Storm | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Roman Catholics, exhorted them to set a Christian example for their subjects in the gambling mecca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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