Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office. He led off with another well-prepared policy statement, again fixing the blame on the Russians for Germany's continued division. But when one reporter asked him what he thought about the German elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Secretary started ad-libbing. A defeat of Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, said Dulles flatly, would be "disastrous " for both Germany and the cause of German unity...
...quality of pleasing just about everyone on the Western side. Paris' leftist Combat nicknamed it "La Note Dior," because it was short and had style. Le Monde applauded the absence of "polemics, which give the Soviets the nourishment they need for their propaganda." In Germany, giving his approval, Konrad Adenauer said that it was he who suggested writing the note. And, though it was nicely timed to give Adenauer a last-minute boost for the Western German elections (see below), Adenauer's political enemies, the German Socialists, said they liked...
...last week of the German election campaign. "Don't worry," said Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, "I am not going to let myself be De Gasperized...
...Konrad Adenauer's virtue is that he recognizes, and knows how to deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...
Grotewohl accepted Malenkov's proposals, the communique said, with "satisfaction and gratitude." Malenkov was clearly hoping to put his East German puppets back in business after their pummeling last June. He also used the occasion to accuse Konrad Adenauer of "leading Germany toward a new war," and "again setting Germany against the peoples of Western and Eastern Europe." This was calculated to make some propaganda hay among Germany's fearful neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs and the French. But would it have much effect on the German elections? Probably not, for if there is one thing all West...