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...would be great news for the West. It would: 1) confirm Germany's decision to rearm on the side of the West; 2) strengthen Germany's slow experiment in democracy by continuing strong, also stable government. It would bolster the faltering cause of European Union, in which Konrad Adenauer devoutedly believes...
...Mistake. World War II came to an end for Konrad Adenauer on a quiet Sunday morning. The U.S. 9th Armored Division broke into Rhöndorf in its drive for the Remagen bridgehead. The lead tank fired three shells in the general direction of a 69-year-old gentleman who was quietly tilling his garden in overalls and straw hat. Adenauer threw himself down and escaped with nothing worse than bruises...
...refugees live like animals, when and where they can. Konrad Adenauer confesses that "the task of integrating them into a tightly populated area, to see that they get employment, not to let them degenerate and waste away, to care for their young people, to make useful citizens of them-that task reaches out beyond our capacities...
...Nazis. Since 1949, a million ex-Nazis have been re-enfranchised. A dozen pennywhistle Fuhrers are after their votes, but most of their votes will probably go to the extreme right wing of Konrad Adenauer's coalition. Some queer fish have swum into the Free Democratic Party and the German Party, seeking respectability. Until recently they had nowhere else...
...Konrad Adenauer's virtue is that he recognizes, and knows how to deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...