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...this mixture of happenstance, deliberate policy, improvised decisions and national persistence can be found the explanation for the speed of West Germany's comeback. But the ideas and leadership of Konrad Adenauer explain, more than anything else, the character of the comeback...
When the Western Allies stumbled upon him right after V-E Day, Konrad Adenauer was just an old man in a high, starched collar, stern and vigorous and proud, already well into the twilight of his life. In his three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days...
...Adenauer means the European Defense Community. The idea came, providentially, from France. Germans could not propose it without risking the impression that it was simply a cunning maneuver to unlock the occupation shackles and revive the Wehrmacht. But when the enemy from across the Rhine proposed it in 1950, Konrad Adenauer could more easily champion...
Across West Germany, tireless, graven-faced Konrad Adenauer campaigned bluntly on the issue of United Europe. His main opponents, the Socialists, bluntly campaigned against it. Germans had a clear-cut choice. "Our country," said Adenauer, "is the point of tension between two world blocs . . . Long ago I made a great decision: we belong to the West and not to the East . . . Isolation is an idea created by fools. It would mean that the U.S. would withdraw its troops from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment that happens, Germany will become a satellite...
...Flag of Europe. The results astounded even composed Konrad Adenauer. From the historic election, no party was left strong enough to challenge Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats, and no person or bloc within the Christian Democrats was left strong enough to challenge Konrad Adenauer. When his followers gathered at the Chancellery steps next morning to salute him, Adenauer smiled his thoughtful, deep-frozen smile. "Perhaps," said he, "we have won by a little too much...