Word: nein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation where democracy has yet to sink its roots deep. 33 million Germans are eligible to vote, and probably 80% of them will. They will elect 484 deputies to the Bundestag, but to most of them the issue is simpler than that. The issue is Ja or Nein for the man whom Winston Churchill has called the greatest German statesman since Bismarck: Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer himself believes that the "fate of Europe, the fate of Germany, the fate of our Christian civilization depends on the outcome of September 6." There is much in what he says...
...used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled out a dwarf cigar at a church meeting, Dibelius' goatee shook. "Nein, Bruder, nein," he said, proffering a cigar of his own, "if you must smoke a cigar, smoke a real...
...have the Hero's privilege of borrowing 20,000 marks from the state, and be able to spend most of his time being exhibited as a patriot instead of tending the hot furnaces. But when the union men told Willy of the new honor, he astounded them again. "Nein," said...
When comrade leaders came to him one day last summer and offered to designate him an Aktivist (the East German equivalent of Russia's speedup Stakhano-vites), Willy calmly replied, "Nein. There are better people here than me." The union leaders were astounded; after all, as an Aktivist, Willy would be entitled to a 10,000-mark bonus every month. They reported Willy's refusal to the Chemical Workers' Union in East Berlin. The union bosses shook their heads in admiration. Willy Knoblauch, they decided, should get even more than Aktivist honors. He should be made...
...NATO, West Germany's joining the European Defense Community. Even in his own party he became dictatorial and sour, antagonized such figures as witty, courageous Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's mayor, who thought Schumacher's opposition to the West was dangerous. Schumacher earned the name Herr Nein...