Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had gone along with the West's rebuff to Russia's offer of a united "neutral" Germany (TIME, March 31). Now he had to convince a skeptical Bundestag...
Then the West sat back to wait for West Germany's response. Well did it know the eagerness that quickens every German's heart at the prospects of uniting their divided country.*The West, and its good friend Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, are engaged in a great gamble: to give West Germany its independence, and to integrate its troops into a European army before the cries for a free and unified Germany can thwart the plan. So far, 76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer has managed to avoid the accusation that he seeks to keep Germany divided. But his popularity...
...hustled home after V-E Day to help remake his country. Elected rector of Frankfurt University, he was busy trying to run a university of penniless students and wrecked buildings when his phone rang one day in the spring of 1950. The call summoned Hallstein to Bonn. There Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked: "What do you know about the Schuman Plan?" Replied the professor candidly: "Something less than there has been in the newspapers." Hallstein emerged from the Chancellery as chief of Germany's Schuman Plan delegation...
...voters this week looked to the northeast (New Hampshire) for the national political portent, the signs in Germany last week were in the southwest. Germany's Socialists, led by vituperative Kurt Schumacher, have long insisted that the bulk of Germany's people are dead set against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's plans to tie Germany into the Western European defense. A local election for assembly members in the southwestern state newly formed from the merger of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern gave them, they thought, an ideal chance to prove their case...
...question period, Bowie said that our policy of backing Germany as a candidate for the European Army has put German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in a good bargaining position. He felt that the 300,000 troops that Germany will provide for the Army could be raised else where, but he said it is a psychologically sound policy to include Germany in the protection of Western Europe...