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...Free Democrats will also provide the No. 2 men in the Defense. Foreign and other key ministries. No F.D.P. member, however, poses a serious threat to Adenauer's most likely successor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But all the government's major domestic and foreign-policy decisions will have to be cleared in advance through a "coalition committee." At week's end. the F.D.P. voted to accept the deal on one added condition that the C.D.U. will consider this week. The condition: that Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano be replaced, because the F.D.P. thinks he would not take...
Coalition talks between Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats and Erich Mende's Free Democrats are proceeding smoothly. Bonn experts now predict the formation soon of a new C.D.U.-F.D.P. government under Adenauer, 85. Ludwig Erhard, Adenauer's Minister of Economics for the past twelve years, is expected to retain his post, while Erich Mende will stay out of the Cabinet to continue serving as chairman of the F.D.P. When der Alte finally relinquishes his post (he refuses to set a date), Erhard will probably step up to the chancellorship, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss move...
...that Adenauer appears to be fading out of the picture, Shirer said, West Germany will surely drift closer to the Soviet Union. Both Erhard and Strauss would deal with Russia and East Germany. And, although he expressed some admiration for Erhard, Shirer claimed that Strauss is potentially dangerous- "a little Bismark perhaps...
...Some critics feel that so long a reign as his may stifle their young democracy. The Socialists captured a high percentage of the country's first-time voters, while the Free Democrats winkled off a sizable number of the middle-class urban voters who admire Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard as the engineer of prosperity and vehemently resent Adenauer's underhand attempts to keep their hero in the shadows. Said a party official: "Plenty of our voters felt that in voting for us they were voting against Adenauer for Erhard...
...minority government. Moving in for what he hoped would be the kill, wily Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took to TV to announce that his own 50-man Bavarian wing of the party-which fared respectably at the polls-had decided that der Alte should be succeeded by Erhard. Strauss's critics say that he hopes Erhard will serve briefly as transitional Chancellor, perform badly in foreign affairs, and thus clear the way for Strauss himself...