Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office-they have not won a single federal election since the West German Republic was established in 1949-the Socialists had turned, logically enough, to the man whom a recent public-opinion poll rated even more popular with West Germans of voting age than 84-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer himself...
...prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the Socialists, who angrily accused him of suffering from a "mental short circuit." Brandt's obvious campaign plan on the reunification issue: to accuse Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats of not sincerely desiring reunification and of doing too little to keep the hope of it alive in East German breasts...
Watching the Tables. But despite the new Brandt brand on the Socialist Party, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were sure to go into the election campaign running strong. Polls showed that 69% of West Germany's voters still considered Adenauer's performance as Chancellor "satisfactory," "good," or "very good," and the issue that in the past has cut most ice with West Germans politically-the Federal Republic's booming prosperity-was still in the Christian Democrats' favor. Moreover, the damaging and undignified rivalry between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "the engineer of the German...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has long regarded Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as a man who may not have West Germany's true interests at heart. But last week Host Adenauer greeted a visiting Macmillan with a smiling "My dear friend," soon was toasting the Queen over venison, sherbet and fine wines...
Professor Martin does not say how his thesis would apply in the cases of France's President Charles de Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both of whom are notably devout Christians, and notably not weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian...