Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest and most drastic move to set the German economy free and to encourage U.S.-style free enterprise in the most habitually bureaucratic of all nations, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last week removed all government price controls from the sale of German steel and steel products. Instead of being glad, most German businessmen seemed apprehensive over their new freedom. Industrywide price fixing under stern government control has been standard practice in the steel industry for the past 21 years...
...last days of his government, Pinay tried to arrange a secret meeting with West Germany's Konrad Adenauer at an old chateau outside Paris. Purpose of the meeting: to discuss renegotiation of the European Defense Community treaty. Adenauer was assured that Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would not be present. Facing a political crisis over Schuman's demand for unequivocal ratification and parliament's demand for amendments, Pinay hoped to escape his troubles by working out a deal with Germany...
...West Germany, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer-getting into the act before his powerful Socialist opponents could beat him to it - announced that Germany also wanted changes...
...organized or a single German armed, the treaties have to be ratified by the parliaments of six countries. France and Germany, with old antagonisms rankling, are stalling. What happens if EDC is not ratified? European statesmen pale at the question, give answers like that of Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: "By economy of thought I refuse to examine the alternatives." Last week a man who has done more than most to delay the European Army gave his alternative...
From the rostrum spoke the dry, spare, 76-year-old Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. Ordinarily icy and unemotional, Adenauer summoned up all the passion and eloquence he could muster. "It is the fateful hour of Germany!" he cried. "We are at the crossroads of slavery and freedom . . . A vote of 'no' on these treaties means 'yes' to Stalin . . . Germany's position is more exposed than ever before in her history. Germany is divided and torn, disarmed and defenseless She is overshadowed by a colossus that is trying to enslave and swallow...