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Many times, when he was Vice Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard had been called into Konrad Adenauer's spacious, baroque office in Bonn's Palais Schaumburg and bawled out by der Alle for real or fancied transgressions. The setting was still much the same: the sunny room overlooking the Rhine, the Persian rugs, the stately furniture. But now the roles were reversed. Sitting in the Chancellor's chair was Ludwig Erhard, and he had peremptorily summoned the venerable Adenauer at 9:15 a.m. to dress him down in the presence of Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder...
...After some of the things that have been going on," said Erhard, grimly puffing a thick cigar, "I thought it would be useful for us to get together." Several cigars and 90 minutes later, Adenauer more or less meekly picked up the phone and called his principal ally, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, advising him to do nothing that would aggravate the disunity of their party...
Francomania. The party's disunity was caused by the fact that Adenauer, Strauss and other West German "Gaullists" had been trying to force the Chancellor's hand in the conduct of foreign policy. Erhard and Foreign Minister Schroder base their policy on alliance with the U.S. and support an Atlantic-oriented, tightly integrated European union. Faithful to this conception, Erhard turned down President de Gaulle's brusque proposal, during recent talks in Bonn, of a loose confederation first of France and Germany, later to be joined by other Continental nations who might want...
Konrad Outfoxed. But all the plans went awry when the usually easygoing Erhard got mad on his return from a recent trip to Denmark (TIME, July 17). Then, after the confrontation in the Chancellor's office, Erhard went to Munich and addressed the C.S.U. convention in the same fighting mood...
...reform movement been started. Half a dozen ranking executives of West Germany's big Henschel Werke (locomotives, trucks, land movers) have been jailed on suspicion of defrauding the West German Defense Ministry, including President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed on suspicion of tax evasion. In 1962, after Germany's saucy newsmagazine Der Spiegel questioned West Germany's military preparedness, police jailed Publisher Rudolf Augstein and five other Spiegel...