Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Germany's Social Democratic Party, regroomed in the dashing image of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, is already working hard to beat out Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats in next fall's national election. The Socialists' first big test of strength came last week in communal elections involving 40% of the West German electorate. The results were hardly encouraging...
...convince West Germans that he would make a better chancellor than Konrad Adenauer, 85 -who will come to the U.S. next month for a little campaigning...
Fearful that the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann might provoke a new era of anti-German feeling, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a rare press conference, expressed his concern. "We Germans," said he, "are apt to forget that part of our past which was anything but pleasant more quickly than people in the countries affected by it." A proxy statement from the stockholder-harassed Chrysler Corp., which just en joyed its first profitable year since 1957, mentioned a raise for Chairman-President Lester Lum Colbert, whose compensation totaled $260,650. Colbert's compact-era 1960 salary boost...
West Germany's Christian Democrats are plainly getting worried about the popularity of West Berlin's fiery Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, who will be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's principal opponent in next September's national election. With his record of standing up to the Russians in Berlin, Brandt is invulnerable to the usual charge that German Socialists are "soft" on Communism. So Christian Democrats are attacking Brandt on other grounds-charging that during World War II, Willy Brandt was "anti-German," even fought against Germans in the Norwegian army...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...