Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little faster," commanded Konrad Adenauer, and the needle leaped up to a steady 130 (81 m.p.h.). 15 Million Posters. Almost every day for the past month, the Federal Chancellor of Germany has been urging his driver on. It is election time in Germany, and before the votes are counted on Sept. 6 he hopes to drive 6,000 miles to deliver 45 major speeches. Hundreds of other candidates are also stumping the land...
...less than three weeks, West Germany's 33 million voters will pass judgment on Konrad Adenauer, who for the last four years has presided over his country's economic resurgence and won his mistrusted nation a place in the councils of the West. Formally, West Germany will be voting for 484 Bundestag members. Actually, it will vote either to retain the dour old Chancellor or replace him with a Socialist. The betting was that he would win, but the spry, 77-year-old was taking no chances. On a 6,000-mile, month-long tour, he was delivering...
...blatantly put forward such candidates as Dr. Werner Naumann, former state secretary of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, recently arrested (and released) for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bonn Republic and Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, a onetime Luftwaffe ace now living in Argentina. Busy last week warding off the left, Konrad Adenauer threw a worried glance over his shoulder at such distressing signs on the right, warned his countrymen not to play with that kind of fire...
Ancient Dream. The urge-and need-to add German divisions to NATO is the No. 1 reason for EDC. Reason No. 2 is a long-term political objective: European Union. By intermingling the armies of France and Germany, Pan-Europeans like Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi and France's Jean Monnet confidently hoped to staunch the national rivalries that have convulsed their Continent for centuries...
...Second counterforce is German unity, the only campaign issue that could upset Konrad Adenauer in the September elections. Adenauer's Socialist opponents charge that the integration of the West German Republic into a West European alliance will make permanent the partition of their country...