Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory was 77-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In his moment of triumph, his face was grimly impassive, as usual. At the decisive session, it was his schoolmasterly logic that carried the day: "We are still under occupation law ... We still have no right to follow our own foreign political line. We are still without protection against threats from the East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created...
...leaders of France were packing their bags for a crucial trip to Washington when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer pushed the European Army treaty through the West German Bundestag. The way Paris saw it, the Chancellor could not have been more inconsiderate, nor his timing more inopportune. It was, to put it mildly, a diplomatic embarrassment...
West Germany. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer feared the temptation to regard Stalin's death as a breathing spell: "We must . . . get on with things and not just . . . look with fascination at Moscow...
Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...