Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow often had tried rocket diplomacy of sorts in the past. Khrushchev once told Greece that he would rain nuclear destruction on the Acropolis, and he as good as promised Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that West Germany would become a "funeral pyre." But these were only what diplomats have come to call "missile letters." Never before had the Kremlin risked using missiles themselves to push its policies. It had not permitted Warsaw Pact allies to have offensive missiles, and had never, in fact, dared allow them off the soil of the Soviet Union. Why had Khrushchev done...
...presses our doorbell in the early morning hours." said the daily Frankfurter Rundschau, "is not necessarily the milkman. It might be political police." West German Minister of Justice Wolfgang Stammberger, who had not been told in advance of the nighttime raids, hotly offered his resignation to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer-who had not been informed either. At week's end, unappeased by several conferences with the Chancellor, Minister Stammberger was sticking to his decision, and other Cabinet members threatened to withdraw their support from Adenauer's delicate coalition government...
From Paris, Acheson moved on to Bonn, where crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at first suspected that Kennedy's noise about Cuba had more to do with the election than with the progress of the cold war with Russia, and he rather liked the idea; it was the kind of thing that the old man might have done himself. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took a different view, worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer...
...Paris last week, the idea of an "Air Union" of four of Western Europe's biggest airlines was finally cleared for takeoff. At the urging of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a reluctant Charles de Gaulle gave Air France the green light to begin negotiating final terms with its proposed partners: Germany's Lufthansa, Belgium's Sabena and Italy's Alitalia. When Air Union at last comes into existence, it will boast more aircraft (322) than Pan Am (123) and TWA (160) combined and will fly an estimated 350,000 route miles...
...word at Bonn's Palais Schaumburg one morning last week was that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seemed to be in a terrible mood. Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it. At noon a cable signed Schröder was placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons...