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...mankind's bloodiest war, Germany came back. It was a world power once more. More than any other, the person who brought this about was the stolid old man who stood in Arlington, visibly moved by the strains of his national anthem echoing among the tombstones. He was Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the West German Republic, apostle of United Europe, 1953's Man of the Year...
...Konrad Adenauer had already guided the hated land of the Hun and the Nazi back to moral respectability and had earned himself a seat in the highest councils of the Western powers. Though she still lacked a formal peace treaty, and the Iron Curtain fenced her off from half her land and from 18 million countrymen, Konrad Adenauer's West Germany last year emerged as the strongest country on the Continent save Soviet Russia...
...came an election which the whole world nervously watched, to see whether the oil of democracy could mix with the vinegar of German authoritarianism. The West German voters swept all their Communists and Nazis out of national office and overwhelmingly put their faith in the dedicated, firm-handed democrat, Konrad Adenauer. No longer the passive object of other forces, Germany in 1953 was again one of the formidable forces of history and Konrad Adenauer one of history's makers...
...Konrad Adenauer ... It is recognized that West Germany is the key to the economic and political future of Western Europe, and that now includes the U.S. . . . West Germany could have been a powder keg to pro duce chaos . . . and the freedom-loving people of the world owe Adenauer a great deal. My God ! What if another rabble-rouser had come to the top ? ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown...
Either of two men deserves the title . . . Chancellor Konrad Adenauer [or] Lieut. General Kodendara S. Thimayya...