Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West German politics has been a queer mixture of weakly defined parties since the country's formation fourteen years ago. Konrad Adenauer maintained a continuity of policy only by clever political infighting and force of personality. Ludwig Erhard, the new Chancellor, finds neither political manuevering nor asserting his will very pleasant. But if he is going to change West German policy as much as he would like, he will have to do plenty of both. Opposition to Erhard's ideas is much too strong for him to leave them to their own devices...
...excepting Eva Braun's few days) likes it better in the Haus than the banquet halls. Unpretentious Luise Erhard still does her own shopping in neighborhood stores and bargain basements, and she actively dislikes the necessary but nettlesome social functions. So during the round of farewell parties for Konrad Adenauer, it came as only a mild surprise one evening when she was the only woman in floor-length gown. Aghast at her gaffe, she whispered to Adenauer, "I feel so out of place." "Don't you worry," der Alte consoled, "I am in long pants...
...Western world is the worker and the lowerincome white-collar employee so pampered as in West Germany. Erhard would like to reduce the benefits, which dangerously increase the cost of labor. But his party's left wing is so strongly in favor of the elaborate structure built by Konrad Adenauer that Erhard probably has no chance to use his knife in this field...
...best evidence of Pius' own judgment is his 1943 letter to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing: "We leave it to the pastoral leaders on the spot to weigh whether and to what degree the danger of retaliation and pressure in case of remonstration by bishops make it appear advisable to exercise restraint to prevent greater evil, despite the listed grievances. Here lies one of the reasons why we ourselves impose limitations on ourselves in our public utterances...
...nations, only Britain invested about as much of its G.N.P.-2.7%. Germany spent only 1.4%, France 1.3%, and Italy a meager .4%. One reason for Europe's low spending is that European governments have done little to spur research and development. Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was accused of pfennig-pinching, and his prospering government diverted only $700 million into R. & D. last year. By contrast, the U.S. Government's bill mounted to almost $10 billion, and produced an industrial fallout of inestimable value to U.S. business. The push in aerospace alone has created an estimated...