Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was not the first time that a Western state visitor to Moscow had been deliberately humiliated. Konrad Adenauer had been confronted with a cold blackmailer's offer-10,000 German P.W.s would be returned only if Bonn formally recognized Moscow. And on the very evening in 1956 when France's Premier Guy Mollet signed a communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent...
...contrast, the Western notion of good faith was symbolized at West Germany's Cologne-Bonn airport when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, en route from successful visits to London and Paris, was personally welcomed by West Germany's rocklike Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Said Dulles warmly: "It is not necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth...
...down the steps of the plane from Ottawa last weekend before Washington's photographers could get their cameras aimed. Brandt and his pretty, blonde wife were met by State Department Berlin Expert Eleanor Lansing Dulles, whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city of Berlin, as the Berliners know they can rely on the people...
...Bonn Dulles found Konrad Adenauer willing to appear flexible but skeptical of making any substantial concessions to Russia. In particular, Adenauer is wary of anything that smacks of "confederation,'1 the Russian scheme to link East and West Germany by loose federal institutions. Asks Adenauer scornfully: "Can fire and water confederate...
...visible dent in the unity of the Western allies. British and French officialdom, in a rare vote of confidence in U.S. diplomatic skill, admiringly agreed that Washington had handled Mikoyan adroitly. In West Germany the U.S. had accomplished the diplomatic equivalent of the hat trick. While rock-hard Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rejoiced in his belief that the U.S. had "held firm" against Mikoyan's blandishments, the opposition Social Democratic Party was happily convinced that the U.S. had displayed "new flexibility." Combat of Paris reflected a common European sentiment: "Mikoyan interested, aroused and amused America but did not capture...