Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle is really Jewish. So are Konrad Adenauer, Queen Elizabeth, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Francisco Franco and Fidel Castro, and so was John F. Kennedy. That, at least, is what it says in Les Juifs (The Jews), a new novel about world Jewry, "known and unknown," by French Satirist Roger Peyrefitte, 57, whose Keys of Saint Peter was attacked as "lewdly libelous" by the Vatican in 1956 and promptly sold half a million copies in Italy and France. The Jews may do equally well, largely because France's mighty De Rothschilds brought suit to get the book banned...
...case is impressive. For a nation without any meaningful democratic traditions, the Federal Republic's institutions are working surprisingly well-in large measure, the legacy of Konrad Adenauer's remarkable 14-year chancellorship. Politics in Bonn are contentious, abrasive and unpredictable. According to one of the opinion polls with which the Germans constantly take their own pulse, ten years ago some 30% of German voters thought power should reside in one man at the top; today only 18% still have such authoritarian longings. West Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone...
...files and arresting everyone in sight. Publisher Rudolf Augstein was held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched in protest in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. Five Cabinet officers resigned, forcing Adenauer to fire Strauss...
Until the outcry against his high handed policing of the magazine Der Spiegel forced him to resign from Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet 21 years ago, Bavaria's bull-necked Franz Josef Strauss, now 49, was the fair-haired Knabe of Christian Democratic politics...
...Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, was given the $1000 Fritzsche Award for his work on the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Bloch shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for the same work...