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...before the Bundestag was a three-month-old invitation to Western Germany to join the Council of Europe. Still weak from a bout with the grippe, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made his points a little wearily, like a grandfather repeating a self-evident lesson. Said he: "I do not think that the Western Allies will regard a refusal to enter the Council of Europe as a mark of our friendly approach . . . The Council of Europe is a first attempt to unite Western Europe as a federation. If the Federal Republic refuses to participate, the Council of Europe is finished...
...German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer protested bitterly when France...
...Western Allies have formally protested against the military character of the East German police force; so far, Moscow has ignored the Western notes. But last week the West was preparing a more effective protest. Washington announced that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had asked the West to let his government establish a federal constabulary of 25,000 men. Such a force was necessary to maintain the republic's internal security, argued Adenauer, especially in the face of the continuing streams of refugees from the East. The High Commissioners favored the idea, but would probably scale down the number...
Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany...
...shoved through a law restoring the old caste system, its provisions guaranteed to keep the snug, smug bureaucrat happy. Samples: civil servants may not be dismissed for incompetence; vacancies need not be made public and opened to competition. The Allied High Commissioners, in vetoing the new law, reminded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of his promise last November "to liberalize the structure of government and to exclude authoritarianism," insisted that he produce a more democratic civil service...