Word: konrads
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When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rose to address a Catholic congress in Brussels last week, his audience expected to hear nothing more than an innocuous tribute to the ideal of European unity. What it got was something stronger. Said Adenauer: "In the long run, the European countries cannot fully develop their great energies ... if they continue to find their salvation and security exclusively through the patronage of the United States . . . What are vital necessities for the European countries do not always have to be vital necessities for the U.S., and vice versa; from this fact may result differences...
...unit of measurement named for the discoverer of X rays, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen...
...Konrad Adenauer returned from his seven weeks' vacation with an air of renewed energy and purpose. He had been badly shaken by the U.S.'s "Radford plan" to reduce U.S. military manpower, announced just when he was exhorting the Germans to rebuild their own army. But last week der Alte seemed once more the leader sure of what he must do. The Chancellor summoned the Cabinet, ordered his ministers to stop squabbling and get rearmament moving. He lectured a caucus of Christian Democratic Deputies, pointing out that the Suez crisis "illustrates the need for conventional arms and forces...
...Konrad Adenauer is a man who feels betrayed. He visited the U.S. last June with what he regarded as a prized gift for his old friend John Foster Dulles: a promise that, despite all the public opposition and the criticism from the Socialists, the Bundestag would soon pass a conscription law. Since West German rearmament has long been a prime goal of U.S. foreign policy. Adenauer made his pledge with happy anticipation, but got in return, say his aides, only a polite smile. Driving away from Dulles' office, Adenauer uneasily told a subordinate: "I have a feeling something...
...line for Dulles and the U.S. Adenauer's U.S.-inspired foreign policy has failed to bring German reunification any closer. With only a year to go until West Germany's next general election, German voters had been presented with what seemed to them clear evidence that Konrad Adenauer's credit in Washington was decreasing. ("Adenauer," predicted the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, "will be overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee.") Simultaneously, the Socialist argument that it was senseless for West Germany to introduce conscription at a time when other nations were reducing conventional forces took...