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Congratulations . . . Few will disapprove of your choice of Man of the Year [TIME, Jan. 4]. Brave old Konrad Adenauer has shown us, by his determined stand against the twin evils of Communism and Naziism, that he is truly one of the greatest...
...victory for Europe, and the West's big cold-war success of 1953. When the striped German flag was raised in post-election triumph above the Chancellor's Palais Schaumburg, the green and white flag of European unity was run up alongside it. "The elections," said Konrad Adenauer, "have decided that Europe will come about, that the EDC will come about, and that the cold war is lost for Russia...
Near the Heart. As far as it went, the story of Germany's rise in 1953 was good for the democracies and bad for Communism. But other years and other men will determine whether there will be a happy ending. Konrad Adenauer is 78 this month. In the frost of his rigid, imperious command over machinery of both party and government, few sprouts of leadership have been able to grow. "How long I can hold my present office no one can tell," he said. "Even I cannot. My health and strength are excellent. Nothing, however, is nearer my heart...
...Konrad Adenauer himself has also seen the brooding outsider. If the dream of Europe collapses, there is, he fears, the possibility of a revival of German militarism. "I never minimize this possibility if Europe fails," said he last week. "If France refuses to accept reconciliation with her former enemy, how we would accept the effect of such a reversal I do not know . . . The whole population would be affected. We cannot say what would happen. But we have had experience in the past...
...Perhaps I had better not die yet awhile," said Konrad Adenauer. "There is still too much...