Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elections last week in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's most populous state, 82-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats found the winds anything but contrary. The opposition Socialists, thinking that their surest bet was to campaign against "Atomic Death," in opposition to the Chancellor's policy of atomic rearmament inside NATO, were swept from office. The Christian Democrats won an absolute majority, the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia history...
...Sommer's bunker-where, according to former SS Judge Konrad Morgen, Sommer kept a secret compartment, concealed in the floor under his desk, to hide torture instruments and the needles with which he shot carbolic acid and air into his victims' veins. Sommer often laid the bodies beneath his bed for the night...
East Germany's Communists never pass up a chance to point their Red fingers at the former Nazis holding some 20% of the places in West Germany's Bundestag, and the two former Nazi Party cardholders in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet. Day after day East German newspapers headline: NAZI MURDERERS UNDER BONN'S PROTECTION, or NAZIS AS DEPUTIES. Last week Berlin's "Investigating Committee of Free Jurists," making no effort ta defend Bonn's tolerance of ex-Nazis, published a look-who's-talking report about Nazis in high places in East...
...Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
...Christian Democrats, in a nation 99% Catholic, were dogged by Italy's old anticlericalism, and by lack of a forceful, unifying leader such as Germany's Christian Democrats have in Konrad Adenauer. Two years after Hungary, the Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists continued to poll 36.7% of the vote, a slight increase over last time. Results in the Chamber of Deputies...