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...Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) of ailing, conservative Reinhold Maier, and the Deutsche Partei of Heinrich Hellwege, Minister President of Lower Saxony...
...Maier, so ill these days that he has to hold his beer mug in both shaky hands, lost much of his following last year when the Free Democrats split and Maier's wing left the Adenauer coalition. His campaign is tired and spiritless, and Adenauer campaign strategists doubt that Maier and his Free Democrats will even poll the necessary 5% of the total ballot to stay on the rolls. His chief issue is that an Adenauer victory would make twelve Adenauer years in power and pave the way for a one-party state; it is not necessarily...
...member of the 1933 Reichstag he voted to grant sweeping powers to Hitler, but later got his Jewish wife out to England (in 1939), and himself managed to outfox Gestapo questioners. Named Minister President of Baden-Württemberg by the U.S. in 1945, Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...
...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...
...Such is the man who may hold the balance of power after next autumn's elections. Will his Free Democrats deal with the Socialists or the Christian Democrats? Presumably the Christian Democrats would have to retire Adenauer before Maier would sign with them. The Socialists would have to subdue their economic radicalism to get his support. Which way he will lean he will not say. Said Reinhold Maier last week: "One says of the hunter that he doesn't always tell the truth after the hunt. Of the politician one says that he doesn't always tell...