Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the flinty monolith of his public image stands a suspicious and emotional man, whose impulsiveness is generally held in check. Last week, at 83, under the duress of his days and years, der Alte came to his loneliest decision. Suddenly and dramatically, the greatest German Chancellor since Bismarck signified his readiness to give up his powerful office after ten years, for the more honorific post of President. It was his own decision, and yet the emotional overtones of his act showed that he was reluctantly anticipating a painful reality...
...Adenauer was also swayed by fears that his allies might be preparing to undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain at De Gaulle's public acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the German frontier on the east. His suspicions of the British burst out in the open before the week...
From an Eminence. Moscow's Pravda lost no time in proclaiming the Chancellor's action "involuntary," and the combination of abruptness, peevishness and pressure lent some color to the interpretation. Yet after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
Thus aroused, Adenauer became abnormally sensitive to public hostility toward Germany in Britain-a feeling first revealed by the chilly reception that British crowds gave West German President Theodore Heuss during his state visit to England (TIME, Nov. 3). Unforgivingly, the Chancellor has kept track of anti-German blasts in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and the tasteless comments of Daily Mirror Correspondent Cassandra (William Neil Connor)-who last week compared Adenauer's attitude on Berlin negotiations to "the rigidity of Hitler at Munich...
...strange mood. Some critics too hurriedly raised the old cry of appeasement, leading the Spectator to retort waspishly: "For the Germans, of all people, to accuse Mr. Macmillan of wanting to do another 'Munich' is a little indelicate." Munich is obviously not the right word. But Britain-public, press and government-is plainly at odds with its allies. It lives on greater hopes and conjures up greater fears...