Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British occupation authorities named it to administer the company in 1949. But Lower Saxony has done little to build up Volkswagen, and the federal government expects to knock out this claim with its private ownership bill. The Bundestag is likely to pass the bill this fall, unless Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is upset in September's elections by the Socialists, who favor continued nationalization. But German politicians believe that the very announcement of the stock ownership plan will pick up votes for the Adenauer-Erhard team, help put it back in office to see the plan carried...
Normally such a firm line would have been heard from the host, too. But it is election year for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and the opposition Social Democrats have been shrilly demanding that Germany refuse to arm itself with atomic weapons lest it bring atomic devastation on itself. Added to their outcries was the opposition to nuclear weapons expressed by 18 of Germany's most eminent scientists, and by aging Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Adenauer decided that it was politically wiser to backtrack temporarily, assured the Russians that Germany did not have any atomic weapons and had not asked...
...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
Within 24 hours after Britain's White Paper leap into the missile age (TIME, April 15), West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took a spry leap of his own. West Germany, he declared, must also have some atomic weapons-just like Britain...
...Konrad Adenauer hit the ceiling. In this election year the opposition, Socialists and Free Democrats, have vigorously decried any attempt to equip the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. Since Adenauer had intended from the start to get his nuclear weapons from the U.S.-Germany is treaty-bound not to produce them itself-he professed not to be disturbed by the scientists' pledge not to help make or test them. ("None of these 18 gentlemen," he snapped, "has been asked by anyone to cooperate in this matter, and none will be.") But he was plainly angry to hear...