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...West German newspapers last week, the glum visage of Sherman Adams was matched by a portrait-no less glum-of a German bureaucrat named Hans Kilb. It was no accident. For six years husky Lawyer Kilb, 48, had served as appointments secretary and personal aide to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Last week West Germany's chief prosecutor slapped Kilb in jail "for investigative purposes." The charge: suspicion of corruption...
...Gaulle himself, getting on with his nation's business, welcomed West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to his home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. It was the first meeting for the two, and they talked for six hours. "Close cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic," they declared, "is the basis of all constructive work in Europe...
...trouble began when Strauss, on his way to an appointment with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, decided to use a short cut-a small, one-way alley officially reserved for der Alte himself but informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan...
...Selwyn Lloyd sat down with Secretary Dulles in Washington to work out a reply to Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a quick day-after-tomorrow summit session on the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the Canadians were already clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British and Commonwealth opinion demanded...
West Germany. For days Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government kept silent while Socialists scored the Anglo-American troop landings. Germans, with their own strong trade ties and commercial ambitions in the Arab Middle East, did not mind letting it be known that they were not involved. Adenauer, miffed at not being told in advance, was mollified when John Foster Dulles made a special trip to see him en route to a Baghdad Pact meeting...