Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Franz Josef Strauss. 41. no Nazi but a veteran of Bavarian beer-hall politics in his own right, became West Germany's new Minister of Defense. He got his job from old Konrad Adenauer-but he is a symbol of the kind of Germany that will replace Adenauer's Germany. He is also a symbol of the kind of military thinking that Konrad Adenauer once stood resolutely against...
Uneasy lies the head of any man who finds himself billed as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's successor. As soon as word leaked out that aristocratic Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano would be made Vice Chancellor as well (TIME, Oct. 22), German newspapers burst forth with headlines and editorials hailing Brentano as the "crown prince." The 80-year-old Adenauer saw red. He summoned Brentano, who, in happy anticipation of receiving the new honor, left a sickbed and journeyed 100 miles. Instead the old Chancellor wanted to talk of other things, then casually let fall that he had decided that...
...first summons for a new drive toward European unity came from West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, out of a mixture of irritation and puzzlement at the so-called "Radford plan" for emphasizing nuclear strength over manpower, began to insist that Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into...
West Germany's reluctance, voiced by Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
Change in Emphasis. In the last three months testy, old (80) Konrad Adenauer has been making a reappraisal-one that might be called "agonizing"-of U.S. foreign policy. Adenauer's disillusion with the U.S. began when he learned (through press reports) that Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had tentatively proposed that the U.S. take advantage of increased nuclear firepower by lopping 800,000 men off its armed forces in the next four years. To Adenauer, who had just pushed a highly unpopular conscription bill through the Bundestag in response to U.S. pressure for West...