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...Minister of Agriculture, who when apprised of his nomination last month said: "I don't think I am cut out for this very high office. I shall have to force myself to cope with it." But, badly split following the resounding feud between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats were in dire need of an uncontroversial candidate for the high, if largely ceremonial, office of President...
Even his private advisers urged him to lay off. His Foreign Minister, Heinrich von Brentano, flatly contradicted his remarks on Geneva. Maddest of all, Ludwig Erhard demanded a public apology, but all he got from the Chancellor was a grudging brushoff. "Honorable Herr Erhard." wrote Adenauer in a personal letter, "I am of the opinion that we must not offer a spectacle of dispute to the public. Therefore, I do not intend to reply to your arguments." Bowing to pleas of party conciliators, he added: "You know I attach the greatest importance to further harmonious collaboration with you." But that...
...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
...Adenauer knew that few Christian Democrats would risk a party split merely to salvage Ludwig Erhard's pride, and that all were linked in timidity by the desire to win in 1961. Finally, Erhard was persuaded to accept a compromise from Adenauer that included neither apologies nor promises. A new Adenauer letter, addressed to "Dear Herr Erhard," was read to the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus: "The intention to offend you or degrade your reputation was absolutely remote to me . . . You can be sure of my full confidence in you as a politician and as a man ... I gratefully...
...Austerity Czar. Frondizi went on to consult with big businessmen, stockbrokers, landowners, bankers-the group Argentines call the fuerzas vivas (productive forces)-and announced a new Cabinet. Key man, as Minister of Economics, was Alvaro Alsogaray, 46, a tough, bouncy free enterpriser in the Ludwig Erhard mold. Said he to Frondizi: "I will carry out your austerity plan, but with my own methods and my own team...