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Welcome in Germany. Mendès slept in the President of Italy's four-car special train as it went north over the Alps to Baden-Baden (pop. 37,000) in the French Zone of Germany. There, in the Prince's Salon of the Hahnhof, he met Konrad Adenauer for the first time since that October night in Paris when the two men battled until 3 a.m. to hammer out an agreement on the Saar. At first, the atmosphere was starch-stiff with formality and suspicion. But as soon as Der Alte recognized that this time Mend...
...fell to Daisy to make the welcoming speech to their guests. In her usual freewheeling style, she spoke of home and the necessity for Germans overseas to hang together in "enemy foreign territory." Somebody told a reporter, and the remark was banner-lined in London newspapers. In Bonn Konrad Adenauer learned of it, and Daisy and Oskar were whisked back to Germany to face an outraged Chancellor...
...himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home, a conference with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at Baden-Baden...
...occasion: Puppet Pieck's 79th birthday, later marked by much handshaking with his fellow Communists, plus (to show his love for the proletariat and also for traditional good luck) a sooty clasp from a chimney sweep. Two days later, in Germany's free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home to whoop it up mildly at a private party with his four sons and three daughters. His day was distinguished by a bit of merriment unheard at the somber rites for Wilhelm...
...KONRAD ADENAUER, Chancellor of the West German Federal Republic, in FOREIGN AFFAIRS...