Word: dehler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resentment against German rearmament, but got nowhere with the issue. The No. 2 party in Adenauer's coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats, likewise tried to stir up nationalist sentiments by calling Adenauer's Saar concessions a betrayal. They got nowhere either, and their chastened leader, Thomas Dehler (TIME, Dec. 6), hastened to reassure newsmen that he and the Chancellor had no differences...
...Ungoverned Tongue. The unclear-est and perhaps the most confused of the politicians he aimed at was, curiously enough, his closest coalition ally. Dr. Thomas Dehler, who heads the Free Democrats, the No. 2 party in the Bonn government. Dehler is an old-fashioned liberal who hated the Nazis and admires Adenauer, but he has one disability: an ungoverned tongue. Dehler "can break so much china in one day that a whole government needs a long time to glue it together again," complained the Christian Democratic press service...
...down Hesse and Bavaria, the two men went last week, Dehler smashing china, Adenauer picking up the pieces. Der Alte no longer had much patience for his impulsive ally. Dehler had given an interview to the Yugoslav Communist organ Politika, saying that he would agree to Communist-run "unfree elections" in the East zone if, by so doing, Germany could be unified. Said Adenauer to an applauding Munich crowd: Dehler's "statement is ... a distinct disservice to Germany." Dehler then accused Adenauer of a "giveaway" of Germany's national rights in the Saar; Adenauer countered by accusing Dehler...
...Adenauer most was an implication of religious intolerance. The Catholic Chancellor almost singlehanded jammed reparations for Israel through his Cabinet; he works constantly to preserve a careful Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. Last week, when Hessian and Bavarian Catholic bishops urged their communicants to vote for Christian Democrats, Dehler cried clerical intervention. "Why does not Joseph Cardinal Wendel [of Munich] take over the government?" he demanded. "We would at least then know what we have...
...days later, Der Alte confronted Dehler and his FDP leaders in his office at Palais Schaumburg. In conciliatory fashion, he offered to convey to the French any points the FDP had to make. Experts were scheduled to meet to work out some details anyway, and the points could be brought up then. The FDP leaders emerged looking pleased. Exuberantly, Party Deputy Chairman August Martin Euler told newsmen that there were going to be new Saar talks with the French. "Reopening of Saar talks," said the headlines. No such thing, answered the French Foreign Office. Hastily the German Foreign Office sent...