Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Chancellor becomes commander in chief). The Socialists in turn abandoned all-out opposition on rearmament, concentrated on making sure that the reconstituted German army would never become a militaristic menace but would take its subordinate place under civilian and parliamentary control. Once the upper house and President Heuss add their approval, the new citizens' Bundeswehr* (Federal Defense Force) can get on with plans to take in some 90,000 men by the end of 1956, and to train 500,000 men (a twelve-division army, a 20-wing air force and a small navy) for NATO...
...friends in East Germany, stream up to the stamp windows. And with a realism born of ten years' experience, they purchase not the refugee stamp--which pictures men and women fleeing west from the Iron Curtain--but the standard one portraying the cherubic face of Federal President Theodore Heuss...
...Defense Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill setting up a selection board to screen all officers from colonel up, giving both parliament and President Theodor Heuss veto power over the board's membership...
...before the new, balmy atmosphere from the East thawed his nation's resolve. Knowing that he must beware of many, inside and out of Germany, who still fear German militarism, he moved surely as ever, but more quickly than usual. On Monday morning last week he visited President Heuss. tendered his own resignation as Foreign Minister (a job he has combined with the Chancellorship for four years), and nominated two key new ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor...
...Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated him, but barred photographers from snapping any pictures of the un ceremonious ceremony...