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...culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely Roman Catholic and bourgeois, the Germany of Munich, the old Rhenish bishoprics and the industrial Ruhr. This is the Germany of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It thinks back, with some nostalgia, to the European and Catholic unity of the Holy Roman Empire. Catholic voters, a decisive force through history's accidents in the new Federal German Republic, have long had a tendency to look westward in their politics...
...victory was 77-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In his moment of triumph, his face was grimly impassive, as usual. At the decisive session, it was his schoolmasterly logic that carried the day: "We are still under occupation law ... We still have no right to follow our own foreign political line. We are still without protection against threats from the East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created...
...leaders of France were packing their bags for a crucial trip to Washington when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer pushed the European Army treaty through the West German Bundestag. The way Paris saw it, the Chancellor could not have been more inconsiderate, nor his timing more inopportune. It was, to put it mildly, a diplomatic embarrassment...
West Germany. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer feared the temptation to regard Stalin's death as a breathing spell: "We must . . . get on with things and not just . . . look with fascination at Moscow...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...