Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this belief, while steadfastly maintained in public, is becoming increasingly hollow. Far more realistic than last week's mob scene was a rare joint appearance by Christian Democrat Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, both of whom pleaded for reconciliation with Poland. The emotions that can still be stirred up by talk about the "lost homelands" in the East sometimes obscure a major political and social development in West Germany: the remarkably successful integration into the nation's life of 13 million refugees, one-quarter of the population...
After a recent visit to the U.S., West Germany's Minister without Portfolio Heinrich Krone returned to Bonn with a telling assessment of official Washington's mood. Said Krone: "Everyone is preoccupied with Cuba, Berlin, Laos-and chickens." Konrad Adenauer confided not long ago that he and President Kennedy have had voluminous correspondence during the past two years, "and I guess that about half of it has been about chickens." Last week the cause of all this chicken talk-tariffs-took an unexpected turn. Into effect throughout the Common Market went a raised tariff on imports...
...West Germany, Christian Democratic Union leaders forced gnarled old Konrad Adenauer to agree to step down next fall and let Ludwig Erhard take over as Chancellor. Accordingly, Kennedy's host in West Germany will be a lame duck, and Kennedy will have the sticky problem of treating with Erhard while Adenauer, who openly dislikes Erhard, is still in charge. Adenauer decided to accompany Kennedy to West Berlin, thereby peeving Social Democratic Mayor Willy Brandt. The Russians announced that they will consider an Adenauer visit to Berlin "provocative...
...young King found the political climate at home too hot to leave. He was one of at least a hundred cover subjects who wanted to attend but found that some circumstance in the schedule of their busy lives kept them away. Among them was Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who also accepted but then found the pressure of events too great. He wrote: "It would have afforded me great pleasure to be able to thank the American people once more from all my heart and on American soil for the readiness to help and the friendship which...
Jovial and popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, after years of patiently and impatiently waiting, last week finally got his party's promise to make him West Germany's next Chancellor. Even Konrad Adenauer...