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MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. In the first of two autobiographical installments, der Alte reviews the years from World War II to the Administration of Harry Truman, for whom Adenauer had deep respect...
...Good. He cites Pius' attempt to help save the Jews of Rome from deportation by the Germans, takes note of papal statements that indicate Pius' personal anguish over Nazi atrocities. Friedlander also quotes from a long letter that the Pope wrote to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing in 1943 suggesting that an open protest would do no good, since it would only stir Hitler to worse evils. He includes the argument made by Vatican diplomats that for Pius to attack Hitler during the war would involve German Catholics in a crisis of confidence, and would...
MEMOIRS 1945-53 by Konrad Adenauer. 477 pages. Regnery...
...musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
...Your visit is unique," said Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol in the understatement of this or many another year. West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 90, stood in Jerusalem with his old friend ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, 79, and declared: "Your hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch...