Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week after their return from Moscow, the German negotiators were still counting their money and their fingers. One of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's colleagues described in shocked tones the ordeal of dealing with the Russians. "They squeeze you until blood comes from under your fingernails," he said. "They make you feel your position is hopeless. Then, in the last hour, they give you something you want in return for what they wanted in the first place. This happened to the Chancellor, and I cannot think of any German who could have acted differently than...
FROM Russia last week came news of another TIME cover subject. When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visited Moscow, TIME'S peripatetic Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell went along, stayed close enough to his subject (see cut) to dig up some important facts that had not been previously reported on the Moscow conference (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Since 1917, the U.S. has been more or less closely, more or less consciously involved with another vigorous, complex nation-Germany. Last week, when West Germany's leader, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, took the momentous step of agreeing to full diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia, Americans knew that the news was important to them. But there was a considerable difference of U.S. opinion as to whether the news was good...
...Last Appeal. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had arrived in Moscow determined to press for the release of German prisoners of war still held by the Russians, and to get the Russians moving in the direction of German reunification. He got flat refusal of one, an oral promise on the other. From the outset it was clear that the Kremlin, for all the talk of a "Geneva spirit," was in no yielding mood, and the historic meeting almost broke up with no agreements at all. Midway through the talks, both sides conceded that they were getting nowhere. One morning, in his special...
...Konrad Adenauer was smiling thinly when Bulganin commanded silence for the toasts and, with Khrushchev constantly interrupting him, raised his glass and said: "Matters are moving ahead. I suppose all will end well...