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First of all, Erhard must find some way of quieting Adensur's ideological descendants with in his own C.D.U. These outspoken parliamentarians, led by former foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano and the swarthy Bavarian Franz-Josef Strauss, are suspicious of Erhard's foreign policy. They favor further exploration of Franco-German unity and would not mind an independent nuclear force for Germany. Their fear of concessions to the Russians became obvious in this summer's debate over ratification of the Moscow atom-bomb pact, when they directly opposed Erhard...
...debate on collegiality lasted nearly two weeks. Finally Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens, one of four supervising moderators of the council and a leader of the progressive forces, proposed that the prelates be allowed to take a straw vote on the four key propositions of the schema. Up popped the council's secretary-general, Archbishop Pericle Felici of the Curia, to argue that there was no provision in the rules of order for any such poll...
...Gaullists include Konrad Aden auer, increasingly suspicious of U.S. aims, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, and Bundestag Deputy Karl Theodor Baron von Guttenberg. They are all more or less sympathetic to De Gaulle's concept of a little Europe, with "Anglo-Saxon" influences diminished...
...independent French-eventually perhaps an independent German-nuclear force. To Adenauer, this means good things: an end to ancient Franco-German rivalries, a stern fist in Moscow's face. To Franz Josef Strauss, it could mean more than that: the revival of nationalist German instincts and policies...
...reading, Erhard almost always has a stack of classical LPs on the record player: Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin. A fair pianist himself -he once hoped to become a conductor -he tolerates nothing modern. His watchword: ''Not one step beyond Strauss" (he means Richard, not Franz Josef). As he listens, he sips a long, cool Scotch and soda ("a habit I picked up from the Americans") and inevitably puffs a cigar. "Lulu, you are smoking too much," Luise chides now and then...