Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Konrad Adenauer's discussions with Charles de Gaulle in West Germany this week will almost certainly encompass their mutual doubts about Britain's desirability as a partner in Europe's Common Market. Adenauer, whom Britain once considered a staunch ally in its efforts to join Europe, has taken the line of late that, politically and economically, the Common Market may already be too big for its own good. Last week, after a TV interview in which the Chancellor bluntly questioned "whether Britain really wants" political union. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan treated the undiplomatic incident as a threat...
Also Bavarian, but of another breed, is West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 46, who has always seemed willing to trade Munich for Bonn - and who, in the view of his detractors, had his eye on the Palais Schaumburg, residence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Back in Bonn after a week of parades and prayers that sealed a new era of French-German friendship, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called a special press conference to deliver a rambling, emotional account of his visit to Charles de Gaulle and of the "eternal" bonds of understanding that now link Europe's once deadly enemies. Coolly he brushed aside impatient newsmen who were more interested in a stunning domestic development: a sharp regional election upset last week of his Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's richest, most populous state, comprising one-third...
...Kennedy spoke, the two aged leaders of the "new union" held a meeting in Paris that symbolized Europe's revival. Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle decided to press for resumption of talks on Western European unity before the matter of British admission to the Common Market can be settled, but they expressed the hope that Britain would be admitted. Still troubled by all too recent memories of the Boche, Parisians showed only muted enthusiasm for the visitor, but at a state dinner at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle offered an emotional toast and a special history...
...When Konrad Adenauer places the traditional wreath at the Arc de Triomphe, the occasion rises above ceremonial cliche because the one thing known about France's Unknown Soldier is that he died fighting Germany. When, after jointly reviewing French and German troops, Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle attend Mass at Reims Cathedral, everyone must recall that it was once shelled by German guns...