Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all the international fretting over whether Konrad Adenauer would get a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag for German rearmament, the Bundestag last week gave its answer. It overwhelmingly enacted the constitutional amendments needed to clear the way for the creation of the new German armed forces. With all but a few Socialists voting in rare solidarity with Adenauer's Christian Democrats, the vote was an overwhelming...
...seven years no one inside his own coalition had dared to challenge so boldly the authority of old Konrad Adenauer. The challenge came from the second-largest party in his coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats. For months the Free Democrats have been muttering that Der Alte's foreign policy is "too rigidly" tied to the West. They saw their chance when Adenauer fell ill, and his iron hold on affairs loosened...
...made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote of 102-96, they succeeded and elected a Socialist the new Minis ter President...
BONN, Feb. 24--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer tonight brought to a head a bitter nine-month quarrel with the Free Democratic party by expelling 37 of its rebellious members from his coalition government. Dr. Thomas Dehler, leader of the Free Democrats, promptly called in a speech at Stuttgart tonight for "bargaining with the Russians for the price for German unity." Dehler was cheered repeatedly as he accused Adenauer of lacking determination to achieve unification, but Adenauer exacted quick revenge for his defeat of last week at the hands of the Free Democrats. The Free Democrats earlier had helped the Socialists wrest...
GERMAN UNIFICATION. Gronchi thinks the U.S. must produce some "new proposals" for German unification, or Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will progressively lose support, and West Germany will fall for some Soviet proposal...