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...little faster," commanded Konrad Adenauer, and the needle leaped up to a steady 130 (81 m.p.h.). 15 Million Posters. Almost every day for the past month, the Federal Chancellor of Germany has been urging his driver on. It is election time in Germany, and before the votes are counted on Sept. 6 he hopes to drive 6,000 miles to deliver 45 major speeches. Hundreds of other candidates are also stumping the land...
...eligible to vote, and probably 80% of them will. They will elect 484 deputies to the Bundestag, but to most of them the issue is simpler than that. The issue is Ja or Nein for the man whom Winston Churchill has called the greatest German statesman since Bismarck: Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer himself believes that the "fate of Europe, the fate of Germany, the fate of our Christian civilization depends on the outcome of September 6." There is much in what he says...
...less than three weeks, West Germany's 33 million voters will pass judgment on Konrad Adenauer, who for the last four years has presided over his country's economic resurgence and won his mistrusted nation a place in the councils of the West. Formally, West Germany will be voting for 484 Bundestag members. Actually, it will vote either to retain the dour old Chancellor or replace him with a Socialist. The betting was that he would win, but the spry, 77-year-old was taking no chances. On a 6,000-mile, month-long tour, he was delivering...
...blatantly put forward such candidates as Dr. Werner Naumann, former state secretary of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, recently arrested (and released) for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bonn Republic and Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, a onetime Luftwaffe ace now living in Argentina. Busy last week warding off the left, Konrad Adenauer threw a worried glance over his shoulder at such distressing signs on the right, warned his countrymen not to play with that kind of fire...
...Second counterforce is German unity, the only campaign issue that could upset Konrad Adenauer in the September elections. Adenauer's Socialist opponents charge that the integration of the West German Republic into a West European alliance will make permanent the partition of their country...