Word: konrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very disgusting to find a German (Konrad Adenauer) on my Dec. 5 cover of TIME...
...Wiesbaden last week, kindly, silver-haired Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Republic, delivered a remarkable speech. It was the speech of a democrat and a Christian; it was also an item of evidence that, in the words of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (TIME, Dec. 5), much that is decent has survived in Germany. Said President Heuss...
These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
Giving German industry increasingly free rein involved risk; giving the West Germans more sovereignty involved risk; backing Konrad Adenauer was a gamble; arming the Germans would be a gamble-But the only real alternative to what the U.S. was doing in Germany would be to let the country stagnate and, eventually, fall to Communism. That would not be a gamble: it would be certain disaster...
...Konrad Adenauer, who tries to be a good German and a good European, last week said: "The world must be convinced of American strength . . . The U.S. has today perhaps the mightiest mission in history. In a human and historic sense America has the duty-if you don't mind my sounding poetic-to see that the light never goes out on our earth ... I want to see a united Europe. Only then can my country be free. To do that, we need the help of the best Europeans of all-the Americans...