Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's hard about-face in Europe slowed down a growing dissatisfaction in Germany with Konrad Adenauer's foreign policy; it halted the drift toward the formation of a Communist popular front in France; and Russia's new anti-Western bellicosity might well reawaken those drowsy Europeans whose tensions had got relaxed. Against these losses had to be set what Russia hoped to gain in the uncommitted Arab-Asian lands...
...world knows where doughty old Konrad Adenauer stands-before, during or after any number of Genevas-on German ties with the West. But how would the rest of West Germany stand now that the second Geneva conference had dashed all German hopes of reunification in the foreseeable future? Last week West Germany's Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano, 51, addressed himself to that question in as eloquent a speech as the Bundestag has heard in its six years...
West Germany's 79-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was convalescing from bronchial pneumonia, and still ill, when he got the news of Geneva's failure to reunify Germany. He summoned military aides and ministers to his home and told them to get moving on the formation of Wrest Germany's new armed forces. Adenauer's demand: four combat divisions in the field...
...group of graduate students and faculty members will publish a "liberal and intellectual quarterly to examine and re-evaluate liberalism," Konrad Kaplowitz 2G, editor of the new magazine, announced yesterday...
...France and Britain, editorialists busily explained that no one had seriously expected much of the "spirit of Geneva" anyway. West Germany's tough old Konrad Adenauer, who dislikes uncertainty, heard the results almost with relief: reality was better than illusion. He briskly ordered the stalled rearmament program pushed through, so that West Germany could have four divisions by the end of 1956. On his behalf, a spokesman declared gratefully that in Geneva the West had "made the cause of reunification their own." But Socialists and members of the FDP, even some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, raised...