Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the Western zone welcome him back into the party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians ran the show and made the decisions. The real boss of the puppet...
These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
...Allies have told me that dismantling would be stopped only if I satisfy the Allied desire for security," he said. "Does the Socialist Party want dismantling to go on to the bitter end?" Amid rattling desk tops and cries of "Pfui!" gaunt, fiery-eyed Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher called Adenauer a liar, shouted: "Chancellor of the Allies...
Adenauer rejects Kurt Schumacher's talk of a welfare state and a controlled economy as remedies for Germany's economic ills. He believes that, under "free incentives, and with some foreign investment, German industriousness can produce enough to give all Germans work and a decent standard of life...
...that the same applies to his new job as West Germany's Chancellor. Actually, Adenauer is a great deal better than other candidates; he ranks far above most other figures on the German political scene. The only man who approaches Adenauer's stature is the Socialists' Kurt Schumacher. With sharp, sardonic intelligence and fierce oratory, one-armed, one-legged Schumacher accuses Adenauer of being dominated by Ruhr industrialists and the Roman Catholic Church, belabors him because some former Nazis have drifted into his party. Other leading Socialists: hulking Carlo Schmid, able party strategist, and West Berlin...