Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make this work," he said. "If we don't, the new generation of politicians and leaders will not succeed, because they have not been through what we have been through." Last week two of the three old men were suddenly only that-old men. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer resigned at 87, after clinging to his office longer than had seemed possible. Macmillan himself gave up the leadership of the Tory Party at 69 because of illness, both physical and political...
...child, Konrad Adenauer was instructed by his father: "Do not let yourself be diverted until you have finished, not even if a cannon goes off at your elbow." Amid thunderous salutes on the eve of his retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
...West should exact a humanitarian price: demolition of the Berlin Wall. He also jolted his hosts with the remark that he might yet re-enter politics, "if I am asked to do so." As Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt put it, no one could really believe that Konrad Adenauer would become a political teetotaler...
What will remain, for a while, is the memory of a crusty, highhanded octogenarian who clung pathetically to power well beyond the moment when he should have relinquished it. Ultimately, however, Konrad Adenauer can only be remembered as the German whose idealism and hardheaded grasp of reality in one decade transformed the nature and condition of 20th century Germany. Winston Churchill accurately called him "the greatest German statesman since Bismarck," but even Bismarck's Germany did not rise from the rubble and bitterness of defeat to the position of respect and responsibility that West Germany enjoys today...
...Adenauer earned him the scornful nickname Rubber Lion, was being so distant with the press, and was handling importunate visitors with such quiet reserve that he was being called a new name: the Sphinx of Tegernsee. He was even able to grit his teeth and remain silent when Konrad Adenauer outlined for top officials a view of Europe's future that was almost identical with Charles de Gualle's vision of a French-led association of states...