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Tension mounted on both sides of the Wall at week's end, as West Berliners planned mammoth rallies to commemorate the anniversary of East Germany's abortive 1953 uprising. When Konrad Adenauer announced that he planned to fly to West Berlin for German Unity Day, as it is called, East Germany protested to the U.S., Britain and France that this would be a "provocative" act. But it was an East German border guard who did most to raise Berlin's blood pressure. When a twelve-year-old East Berlin schoolboy named Wolfgang Gloede approached the barbed wire...
...audience applauded sympathetically, but almost everyone knew that Konrad Adenauer was not telling the whole truth. The Chancellor's letter promising to step down "in time to enable my successor to prepare-for the 1965 election campaign" added the key words, "that is, by the middle of the legislative term." That means late next year, and his coalition partners, the Free Democrats, mean to hold him to his promise, although no one would seriously object if der Alte stayed on just long enough to celebrate his 88th birthday (Jan. 5, 1964) in the Palais Schaumburg...
Today's West German Socialists are hardly socialists at all. Never in power since West Germany became a nation in 1949, they know they can hope to beat Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats only by dropping the talk of class consciousness, and by plugging policies that were anathema to the Socialists only a few years ago. Proclaimed West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt in his Cologne speech: "We say that the Federal Republic must cultivate and develop the relationship of trust with the United States." From SPD Economic Pundit Heinrich Deist there was no kind...
...early 19505 against a West German army, urged concessions to Moscow as a price for German reunification. His support for the SPD's ill-fated "Deutschland Plan," which looked toward removal of Eastern and Western troops from Germany and Bonn's withdrawal from NATO, only bolstered Konrad Adenauer's suspicions that a Communist was trying to take over the Socialist movement. "A demon," growled Adenauer...
...German family dynasty marketing Europe's best-known soap powder hold its own against the U.S. giants moving in on the Common Market? Konrad Henkel, 47, head of the Henkel Group that produces Persil, believes the answer is yes, though there may yet be a little soap-opera suspense. Henkel (1961 sales: more than $250 million) has lately seen more than 10% of the German detergent market grabbed off by Colgate and Procter & Gamble, who have been spending twice as much on advertising as Germans normally do. Konrad Henkel, who shares control of his company with eleven relatives, believes...