Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany, Russia's No. 1 oil-pipe supplier (633,000 tons from 1959 through last October). Just three and a half months ago, three giant Ruhr firms-Mannesmann, Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG, and Hoesch-signed a contract for another 200,000 tons. Ruhr steelmen denounced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a NATO stooge for trying to enforce the new rules. Taken aback, Adenauer's Cabinet last week agreed to reconsider, turned the problem over to a special subcommittee for special study...
...Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...
European unification, both economic and political, rolled along with the dynamism of history (had Great Britain waited too long? ). It was symbolized most graphically as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, the aged and doughty leaders of the New Europe, knelt together at Mass in Reims Cathedral, signifying the burial of ancient antagonisms. On the other side of the world. Communist China's inscrutable and ruthless leaders launched an attack on neutralist India so seemingly pointless that the big mystery is why they did it at all. The attack embarrassed Russia and further widened the split within Communism that...
...Konrad Adenauer, for his excellent leadership qualities. Germany will lose a great man when he retires in about a year...
Early this month. West German politicians were confident of three things: 1) that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would resign next fall, 2) that he would be replaced by popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. and 3) that ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss was finished as a national figure because of his involvement in the Spiegel crisis...