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...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...
...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...
...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...