Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Events swept to a climax in a single day. Ostensibly to bid goodbye on the eve of a four-week Italian vacation, Adenauer went to see outgoing President Theodor Heuss, 75, who has served the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. For two hours the two elders talked about the role of the presidency. That night at home, Adenauer talked heart to heart with his son Paul until midnight. Next morning he complained that he had hardly slept-but he had made his decision...
...think I'm going to retire to the old folks' home." Adenauer cautioned his friends. Heuss's term as President does not end till Sept. 15. Adenauer obviously intends to have a big say in choosing and counseling the next Chancellor (who will be elected by the Bundestag). He hopes to follow the example of his friend De Gaulle in influencing events from an eminence. Perhaps he will be less influential than he foresees. Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier has already warned that "there must be no twisting of the constitution on any account," and others argue that...
Thus aroused, Adenauer became abnormally sensitive to public hostility toward Germany in Britain-a feeling first revealed by the chilly reception that British crowds gave West German President Theodore Heuss during his state visit to England (TIME, Nov. 3). Unforgivingly, the Chancellor has kept track of anti-German blasts in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and the tasteless comments of Daily Mirror Correspondent Cassandra (William Neil Connor)-who last week compared Adenauer's attitude on Berlin negotiations to "the rigidity of Hitler at Munich...
Defeated, Adenauer vainly tried to call off the party meeting scheduled for that afternoon. The party caucus met behind closed doors. Adenauer first wanted President Theodor Heuss's term extended, but was told the idea was unfeasible. For 4½ hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find...
...prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss is to vacate next July at the end of two five-year terms...