Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discontent. In 20 splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...
...declared forthrightly: "Nothing can ever erase from the record certain deeds and events perpetrated in Europe within our memory. But their most important significance today is as a warning to the whole world of what can happen when democracy breaks down." After getting past this sticky need to separate Heuss from the Nazis, the Queen went on to recall her own and her husband's German ancestry...
...Tips from Santa Claus. While London's more mannered newspapers either ignored Heuss editorially or muffled their welcome, Cassandra, the acid-veined columnist of the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4.6 million), let fly: "Heuss has been marketed over here as a gentle, learned Santa Claus utterly removed from the Krupps, the Thyssens, the Schachts, and all the other industrialists and scientists without whose enthusiastic cooperation World War II would never have been possible . . . The President is, in fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution...
...Welt declared: "This is disappointing to many of us who had expected more progress in friendship during the past few years. Now we know we were wrong." The Germans' sensitivity, in turn, stung the British. "What the hell can they expect?" asked one harassed British official. "Heuss was jolly lucky not to have anything thrown...
...eyes of British officialdom, Heuss brought off his four-day official visit with tact, taste and humor. Said Heuss himself, when someone tried to compliment him on the sparse cheers he received: "Don't be ridiculous. Eighty percent were cheering for the Queen. 10% were cheering the horses, and 10% were cheering me-but they were Germans...