Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gleaming limousines last week drove up to a former concert hall in the Rhine resort of Bad Godesberg, a few minutes away from the new German capital at Bonn. Diplomats of 33 nations and the leading officials of Western Germany had come to pay their respects to Theodor Heuss (rhymes with Boyce), a spry old man with friendly blue eyes, who had just been elected to the highest office in Germany. He was the first President of the new Federal Republic (and the first President since Paul von Hindenburg...
...formality of the calls made Professor Doktor Heuss a bit uneasy. He had wanted the presidency as a sounding board for his democratic ideas. But now that he had it, his thoughts went back to his snug flat near Stuttgart, his cozy book-lined study with the apple branches brushing the windows. When reporters asked him if he wished to be addressed as "Excellency," Heuss snapped: "Certainly not! To everybody and anybody, I shall remain Herr Heuss...