Word: dehler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confrontation. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer returned from the U.S. to find not only his opposition but leaders in his own coalition loudly complaining that he had given in too much to France on the Saar. Opportunistic Thomas Dehler, who had accepted the Saar accord in Paris on behalf of his right-wing Free Democratic Party, had changed his mind back in Bonn. There were elections soon in Bavaria and Hesse, and political profit to be made by attacking the agreement. Not to be outdone, the small Refugee and German parties began outshouting Dehler. Scornfully, Konrad Adenauer dressed...
...first murmurs began after the failure of the Berlin Conference to agree to a united Germany. Dr. Thomas Dehler, chairman of the Free Democrats, No. 2 party in the Adenauer coalition, asked pointedly: "Is it not necessary to enter into conversations with the rulers in Moscow and Peking?" Adenauer shushed him by calling such talk appeasement. But after target dates for EDC ratification by the French came & went without action, and the French government tottered feebly, the mutters in Germany increased. The German Chancellor's policy, said the critics, had gotten his nation nothing from either West or East...
Moscow Hint. The Russians did not let the debate die. Pravda quoted Premier Malenkov as promising that the Kremlin would "treat favorably" any West German approach. Dr. Dehler, boss of the Free Democrats, spoke up again last week: "Direct diplomatic relations between West Germany and the Soviet Union are absolutely necessary." A third party in Adenauer's coalition, the German Party, chimed in, demanding "full freedom of action" for Germany...
...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...
Bonn's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer finally apologized to Paris for Dehler's sound-off and minimized the whole incident. The Frankfurter Allgemelne soberly observed: "With what satisfaction the mighty boss in the Kremlin must have observed the goings...