Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konrad Adenauer stood inside the glass-walled caucus room of Bonn's ultramodern Bundeshaus one afternoon last week, white-faced and trembling. Nobody could recall ever seeing him quite so mad before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, 80, took off by air for West Germany, where he will be the guest of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, get an honorary degree from Tubingen's university...
...many a "good European" mourns a lost ideal. Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fearing what he calls "the reviving game of European national states," has felt compelled to go along. But to the Benelux foreign ministers he said privately: "I am 100% convinced that the German national army that Mendès-France forces upon us will become a big danger for Germany and for Europe . . . My God, I don't know what my successors will do if they are left to themselves, if they are not bound to Europe...
Confrontation. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer returned from the U.S. to find not only his opposition but leaders in his own coalition loudly complaining that he had given in too much to France on the Saar. Opportunistic Thomas Dehler, who had accepted the Saar accord in Paris on behalf of his right-wing Free Democratic Party, had changed his mind back in Bonn. There were elections soon in Bavaria and Hesse, and political profit to be made by attacking the agreement. Not to be outdone, the small Refugee and German parties began outshouting Dehler. Scornfully, Konrad Adenauer dressed...
...able to bring about a relaxation of the present tension . . . If we can bring stability and a common purpose in the West, we shall have established the essential basis on which we can seek an understanding with the East." In Washington, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looked to the day when the West shall have cemented its common defense, and be able to "enter into a relationship to be settled by agreement with the Soviet bloc, a relationship which would offer all those participating security against aggression." President Eisenhower, too, spoke of the growth of Western strength until...