Word: neue
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Under the great crystal chandeliers of Vienna's Neue Hofburg palace finance ministers and bankers from the 73 Western, African and Asian nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund last week grappled with a problem inconceivable only five years ago. The underlying-though unconfessed-preoccupation of the Vienna meeting; how to keep the U.S. dollar from being bullied by the newly muscular currencies of France, West Germany, Italy and Japan...
...right-wing newspaper, the Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
...West Germany, a widespread pre-election press anxiety about Kennedy's youth"was coupled with old Adenauer's worries that some of Kennedy's advisers would be soft on Berlin. All this is forgotten. "The free world has a leader again," exulted Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung-and it didn't mean Adenauer. Frankfurter Allgemeine lauded Kennedy's Cabinet picking as "a masterpiece of natural political talent." Even Kennedy's firm demand that Bonn hike its contribution to help stanch the U.S. gold drain was accepted with equanimity. Bonn's earlier proposal...
Newspapers spoke of the nation's "rage and shame" and demanded swift police action; the Minister of Interior hinted that he might ban the German Reich Party (whose former Nazi leaders professed innocence). But the Socialist Neue Rhein Zeitung of Cologne complained that "all these telegrams and expressions of regret . . . seem to be prompted by the concern over the Cologne disgrace abroad." In a radio speech, President Heinrich Lubke blamed all Germans for an "overestimation of material achievement as opposed to intellectual, spiritual and moral values," and noted the continued prevalence in Germany of "arrogance, self-satisfaction and feelings...