Word: dehler
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...Leader. Last week by unanimous vote Free Democrat bosses picked a new leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often...
When Thomas Dehler, leader of the second-largest party in Adenauer's coalition, demanded "a German foreign policy" and bilateral negotiations with the Russians, Adenauer on his sickbed could not contain himself. He dashed off a letter demanding that Dehler recant and swear allegiance to Adenauer's policy. It was an appalling political error, the first sign that the sick old man was losing his legendary political instinct. Dehler had been slipping, but faced with such a humiliating ultimatum, a majority of his party rallied to him, and deserted the coalition. Adenauer's once-massive 334-vote...
...cher: if they wished to remain in the Cabinet, they would have to resign from the party and bring other Deputies along with them. Blücher is a devoted believer in Germany's partnership in the West, has no use for Free Democratic Leader Thomas Dehler's talk of bargaining with Russia for German unity. The struggle was short and sharp. At week's end, the Free Democratic Party split with a grinding crash of rhetoric and recrimination. Dehler and his remaining 33 Deputies surlily went into opposition. The 14 other ex-Free Democrats announced they...
BONN, Feb. 24--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer tonight brought to a head a bitter nine-month quarrel with the Free Democratic party by expelling 37 of its rebellious members from his coalition government. Dr. Thomas Dehler, leader of the Free Democrats, promptly called in a speech at Stuttgart tonight for "bargaining with the Russians for the price for German unity." Dehler was cheered repeatedly as he accused Adenauer of lacking determination to achieve unification, but Adenauer exacted quick revenge for his defeat of last week at the hands of the Free Democrats. The Free Democrats earlier had helped the Socialists wrest...