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...Bundestag went about its task with as much zest as a man stepping up to the dentist's chair. Voting on 85-year-old Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig...
...agreement also includes a proviso that the government should take the initiative "for itself and the West" on all questions directly affecting Germany-even to the point of accepting Germany-wide disarmament and neutrality as a possible basis for reunification. Konrad Adenauer will ignore such far-out conditions when he sits down with President Kennedy next week. As in the past, he will reject recognition of East Germany and of East Germany's Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland. On the issue of a neutralized Germany, the doughty old Chancellor has made it clear that he will never budge...
...Konrad Adenauer, Time magazine tells me, has just been reelected Chancellor of Germany (Beamter von Deutschland) after a period of prolonged uncertainty. This is so much Drucksachen. I, and several others, have known since September 27, to be precise, that Adenauer's reelection would be inevitable...
...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...
...picked as West Germany's new Foreign Minister is a tall, smoothly handsome Saarlander who owes his job and much of his political style to Konrad Adenauer. But Gerhard Schröder, 51, is far more insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only...