Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from Europe can always lighten their fears by making good the deficiencies in their own troop commitments to NATO.) In West Germany, which inducted its first 10.000 draftees last week, Konrad Adenauer seized the occasion to demand atomic weapons for his own army (Germany is forbidden to produce its own by treaty...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...
Last week, just two days before he was scheduled to leave for the U.S., Erhard's dream castle came tumbling down. First came a peremptory message from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's vacation retreat at Lake Como: cancel the trip. Next day, back in his Bonn office again, Adenauer called Erhard in for a face-to-face wigging. "I do not want anyone going over to the U.S., saying that the Common Market is disadvantageous," said Konrad Adenauer, and particularly in the week when ministers of the six nations would gather in Italy to sign the documents...
...Common Market debate was only one of testy old Konrad Adenauer's reasons for keeping Erhard at home. This is election year in West Germany, and two weeks ago the nation's bakers handed the opposition Socialist Party a made-to-order issue by jumping the price of bread. Last week, as the soap and furniture makers followed the bakers' lead, the Socialists talked ominously of spreading inflation and accused Erhard of "quietly leaving the consumer to his fate...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer agreed yesterday to a high-level trade talks between the Soviet Union and West Germany in an effort to develop "friendly cooperation...