Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Berlin's defense, would never abandon "the people of West Berlin to hostile domination." Vice President Nixon, visiting Britain (see The Vice-Presidency), proclaimed that "we already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well as the other members of the American Government, wish to assure you in these difficult times of undiminished American support." As if to underscore U.S. bipartisanship in Berlin, a U.S. congressional delegation of one Republican, three Democrats, toured both halves of Berlin, after which Ohio's Democratic...
Ralph J. Rivers, 55, lone member of the House of Representatives. A onetime territorial attorney general, wiry Ralph Rivers has long been a top vote getter in Alaska, was once mayor of Fairbanks, two years ago made a 6,500-mile auto trip to Washington, where he, Gruening and Egan announced themselves as duly elected representatives of the abortive "Alaska Tennessee'' Plan, demanding recognition for Alaska as a state...
Leaf by Leaf. "Quite intolerable," cried West Berlin's hard-driving young (44) Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, who warned the world that Khrushchev's plan "clearly intends" having West Berlin cleared of Allied troops but left surrounded by Soviet divisions. Added the Berlin newspaper BZ: "We would be at the mercy of Communist intrigue. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have shown us how it is done. Suddenly there is unrest in the 'free city.' Then there are riots. Then come the 'spontaneous demonstrations'. Red flags appear. There are fights. Someone calls the 'People...
...Paris last week 74-year-old Edouard Daladier, last survivor of the "men of Munich," bitterly ended his 40-year career in French politics. Rather than face certain defeat, Radical Socialist Daladier resigned as mayor of Avignon, abandoned his candidacy for a seat in the Fifth Republic's first National Assembly. "In all France." he snapped, "a new right wing, aggressive and hidebound, triumphs by covering itself with the name and prestige of General de Gaulle...
...rnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed...