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...seemed to believe all that his masters had taught about conditions in the U.S. "You became so rich." he told Harriman. "that until now you have been able to bribe or buy off your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged in a crude bit of humor that began, "Look...
West Germany. Its prosperity steadfast; its politics momentarily jolted by Konrad Adenauer's awkward handling of an aged man's transfer of power...
...Konrad Adenauer's troubles might have ended had he been content to let them die down. Instead, he went out of the way to continue his feuding in a succession of interviews in the foreign press. To a Scripps-Howard reporter, he patronized U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's performance at Geneva ("Dulles would have patched up [the Allied rifts] quicker"), opined that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan must be persuaded that "when one belongs to an alliance, he must give up some views of his own." But he reserved the roughest treatment...
...Konrad Adenauer has always treated his Cabinet ministers as juniors, allowed to walk only in the stern paternal grip of der Alte himself. He has not hesitated to humiliate them in public when he thought it necessary to teach a lesson. But they all sit back and take it; in the ten-year history of the Federal Republic, only one has resigned. Last week West Germans watched fascinated to see if Ludwig Erhard, Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister, would...
...maneuver in smoke-filled rooms, and a group of loyal local bosses all about him. Because he has no experience in such essentials of working democratic politics, it was an unequal contest last week when Erhard rose to do battle with that crusty veteran of the political wars, Konrad Adenauer...