Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear gainer was Nikita Khrushchev, who had extracted Yugoslav recognition of East Germany in return for Tito's readmission to honorary membership in "the camp of socialism." By this maneuver Khrushchev had forestalled Konrad Adenauer's tentative scheme to try some Bismarckian diplomacy in Eastern Europe. Adenauer's first projected step was the recognition of Poland, in the hope of creating useful fragmentation among the Soviet satellites. Having broken with Tito over the issue of East German recognition, West Germany could scarcely justify entering into diplomatic relations with the Poles, who have recognized East Germany ever since...
...Reich and with about three-quarters of its population (53 million), looms as the economic wonder of the democratic West. The Germans' own astonishing energy and some $5 billion in timely U.S. aid have wrought their great part in what is universally hailed as "the German miracle." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has created the indispensable moral atmosphere of democratic order and political responsibility. But the philosopher and engineer of the miracle is a pink-jowled, roly-poly professor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
They did. As Volkswagen Maker Heinz Nordhoff said, "From then on, things went." Elected to the Bundestag as a Christian Democratic Deputy in 1949, Erhard took over the Economics Ministry in Konrad Adenauer's first Cabinet. He prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged...
...Radcliffe graduate has demanded that German Free Democrats fight the "one-man rule" of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Sheilah Tobias Ungeheuer '57, now editor of the English language publication of West Germany's Free Democratic Party, attacked Adenauer in a front-page letter titled: Open Letter to John Foster Dulles...
...that if the Soviets could launch Sputnik, they had an intercontinental missile, or at least were ahead in the development of one. That presumption was far from an established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still...