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After the war, Mende studied law and political science, earning the doctorate dear to middle-class Germans. He strayed into politics almost by accident in 1945, when one of FDP's founders recruited him for party chores. Mende's eloquence and organizational ability propelled him rapidly to the party's top echelons. Though the Free Democrats pose as successors to the old German liberal parties, Erich Mende is by instinct and outlook a conservative who has turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals...
...German voters have steadfastly rejected neo-Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) of ailing, conservative Reinhold Maier, and the Deutsche Partei of Heinrich Hellwege, Minister President of Lower Saxony...
...illusion. He briskly ordered the stalled rearmament program pushed through, so that West Germany could have four divisions by the end of 1956. On his behalf, a spokesman declared gratefully that in Geneva the West had "made the cause of reunification their own." But Socialists and members of the FDP, even some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, raised the familiar complaint, dating from the Berlin Conference, that the West had never asked the Russians the crucial question: Would they allow reunification if West Germany got out of NATO...
...called the National Right, and got elected to the Lower Saxony parliament. Two weeks later he abandoned his own party, jumped over to the more respected Free Democrats, the right wing of Chancellor Adenauer's four-party federal coalition. Despite his past, he rose fast in the FDP, was a party leader in Lower Saxony when he became Minister of Culture...
...days later, Der Alte confronted Dehler and his FDP leaders in his office at Palais Schaumburg. In conciliatory fashion, he offered to convey to the French any points the FDP had to make. Experts were scheduled to meet to work out some details anyway, and the points could be brought up then. The FDP leaders emerged looking pleased. Exuberantly, Party Deputy Chairman August Martin Euler told newsmen that there were going to be new Saar talks with the French. "Reopening of Saar talks," said the headlines. No such thing, answered the French Foreign Office. Hastily the German Foreign Office sent...