Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiercest, longest, and almost certainly the last big battle the old man would ever fight. Its cost may be reckoned for years to come. But after seven weeks of haggling, browbeating, trickery and galling compromise, Konrad Adenauer still reigned last week as West Germany's Chancellor...
...Charles de Gaulle last week, expressing fear that any sort of negotiations could only lead to dangerous concessions, Kennedy informed French Ambassador Herve Alphand that he was growing weary of the French attitude of offering objections without any help. Replying to an equally anxious note from Germany's Konrad Adenauer, Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain, or to make any concessions at West Germany's expense. But he held out no false hopes of German reunification, which he feels...
...West Germany has the most vital interests at stake-and Bonn is fearful that Britain and the U.S. are too eager to enter into East-West negotiations that might end with the West trading away basic German rights. While he does not rule out the possibility of negotiations. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is far from eager for them to begin. Adenauer is determined not to accept any settlement that might shatter Germany's hopes for eventual reunification. He hopes to visit President Kennedy in Washington as soon as his Cabinet crisis is resolved. Meanwhile, last week he sent Ambassador Wilhelm...
With patience, stubbornness and political cunning. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, has for years avoided being pinned down on the fascinating question of when he will retire. Heirs apparent have aged while waiting in vain for der Alte to step down. Last week he was finally forced to commit himself. In order to form a coalition government between his Christian Democratic Union and Erich Mende's Free Democratic Party. Adenauer reportedly had to promise a written guarantee that he will resign the chancellorship. His distant deadline: summer...
Roentgen is a unit used in measuring gamma and X rays. It is named after Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, a German physicist who discovered X rays...