Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Bonn, where Beethoven was born, the new German federal government which has barely begun to function is still trying to find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it had decided to live in retreat from the harsh realities outside. But Communist propaganda, radiating from the Reds' Eastern puppet state, reminds Bonn of reality...
Adenauer rejects Kurt Schumacher's talk of a welfare state and a controlled economy as remedies for Germany's economic ills. He believes that, under "free incentives, and with some foreign investment, German industriousness can produce enough to give all Germans work and a decent standard of life...
...carefully planted parliamentary questions about their conduct of office. The Bundestag elected him Chancellor by only a one-vote majority, but that did not worry Adenauer. In his 13-man cabinet, eight Christian Democrat ministers (of the remaining five, three are Free Democrats, two are members of the German Party) always assure him of a working majority. When he is asked if he can get cabinet approval of a particular measure, he is apt to say bluntly: "Don't worry. I am at least 70% of that cabinet...
...worse than the other candidates. Some of Adenauer's critics today say that the same applies to his new job as West Germany's Chancellor. Actually, Adenauer is a great deal better than other candidates; he ranks far above most other figures on the German political scene. The only man who approaches Adenauer's stature is the Socialists' Kurt Schumacher. With sharp, sardonic intelligence and fierce oratory, one-armed, one-legged Schumacher accuses Adenauer of being dominated by Ruhr industrialists and the Roman Catholic Church, belabors him because some former Nazis have drifted into his party...
Adenauer, e.g., black-bearded Alois Hund-hammer, Bavarian Minister of Education who successfully sabotaged U.S. Military Government efforts to reform the German school system...