Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wing-footed Prime Ministers, who find it easier to pop over in a plane than to telephone. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had been in and out of London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each...
...welcome Heuss, official Britain rolled out its full panoply of protocol, pomp and pageantry. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
...full hero's welcome, West Germany's President Theodor Heuss earnestly trundled about the country to New York (where he received an honorary L.H.D. from the New School's President Dr. Hans Simons, who attended Berlin's Hochschule für Politik with him some 40 years ago) from the Grand Canyon (which, in good statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys...
University of Michigan Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany D.C.L...