Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most popular joke making the rounds last week in the land of Goethe and Krupp told of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, at prayer in his chapel. From the vaults below, he heard a German voice groaning: "Adenauer, Adenauer, save me." The Chancellor crossed himself and dug downwards towards the voice. In a pit strewn with ruins he found Germania crucified, and stooped to draw out the nails clamping his nation's feet to a cross made by the Allies. As the nails came loose, Germania sprang up, and with a mighty kick booted Adenauer out of the chapel...
...knockdown prices, of Germany's prewar assets in Spain (Madrid's German hospital went for I peseta), and the expropriation of German commercial firms (Siemens, Zeiss. Bayer, etc.) that were once the backbone of Spain's electrical, chemical and optical industries. For two years Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has resisted discreet British and American pressure to go along with Franco. Last week he yielded...
West Germany's Bundestag last week passed a law that will give German labor unions a legal half nelson on German industry. The law takes West Germany farther from free-enterprising capitalism and closer to socialism-yet it was sponsored by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his conservative coalition, which hoped thereby to prevent passage of a more drastic law. Mitbestimmungsrecht (literally, the right of code termination) is the word for Germany's new halfway house to socialism. Extending to all German industry the rules that have bound the Ruhr's steel mills and coal mines since...
McCloy's toughest assignment was to persuade Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to accept the German Peace Contract and EDC, without which Western Europe would not trust the Germans with arms. When war broke out in Korea, the Pentagon called him home and announced that it wanted a German army within six months. McCloy said no; the development must be slower, else European unity would be imperiled. For weeks of table-thumping debate, McCloy and his sly, dry wit seemed to be everywhere at once: chivvying nervous Frenchmen who feared German rearmament, rebuking truculent Germans who seemed always to want more...
...Cried the Bavarian radio last March: "The proportion of Nazi Party members in the present Foreign Office is now higher than it was during the Nazi regime . . . The Foreign Office is a rat's nest ..." The Bavarian radio charged that 85% of the top personnel were Nazis. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who is his own Foreign Minister) did not help matters much by replying meticulously that the correct percentage of Nazis was not 85% but 65%. Nine months ago, an angry Bundestag committee, composed of members of all the major parties, took off on its own to hunt the Nazis...