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...last week, while Adenauer gasped at its impudence, the usually compliant Bundestag balked. On the first ballot 171 Deputies abstained, including members of the C.D.U., and 41 other Deputies bolted to vote for roly-poly Ernst Lemmer, a C.D.U. leader in West Berlin. This was one way of showing their dissatisfaction with Adenauer's "giveaway" of the Saar to the French...
Then he shooed his followers back into the Chamber. Again Gerstenmaier failed of a majority. He finally made it on the third ballot, which under the rules requires no majority, but simply awards the post to the leading candidate. The vote: Gerstenmaier 204, Lemmer 190. The new Speaker, having torn up his confident acceptance speech, made a sad little talk, declaring that he hoped to be able "to win the confidence of the Chamber." The old Chancellor drove off impatiently to a political meeting in Limburg and explained his being three hours late by growling: "I have just come from...