Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer admitted he had had some adverse mail himself; his favorite postcard, he chuckled, bore only three words: "Sie alter Gauner [You old scoundrel...
...contest was all over. That afternoon, as Erhard walked into a special party meeting, his colleagues slapped him on the back and gave him a standing ovation, crying "Good old Ludwig." When Erhard rose to protest, "I feel deeply hurt by events that occurred during my absence," Adenauer gripped his arm and said: "It was never my intention to belittle your great qualities." Mumbled Erhard: "I am satisfied...
...again-this time over whether Adenauer had or had not warned the Cabinet that he might change his plans and remain in the chancellorship (he had once said he was "90% sure" that he would stay). But Erhard seemed to have no stomach for a direct challenge to the old man. "I am not looking backward, but forward," he said...
...latest scuffle was touched off by youthful-looking U.S. General Lauris Norstad, 52, NATO commander in Europe, whom Old Soldier de Gaulle treats as a subaltern. De Gaulle has vastly complicated Norstad's-and NATO's-existence by 1) refusing to accept launching pads for U.S. intermediate-range missiles in France, 2) failing to integrate France's strategic air defense into an overall NATO system, 3) denouncing an agreement that obligated France to put a third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in event...
...reminded foreign newsmen last week that the general has not yet received a satisfactory answer to the private letters (TIME, Nov. 10) in which he urged Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to admit France alongside Britain and the U.S. in a tripartite NATO "political directorate." It is an old French grievance that the U.S. grants full international partnership to Britain, yet treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians, has "world responsibilities," and unless the U.S. and Britain...