Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roman matron last week overheard her young son's evening prayer. "God bless mother & father," recited the tot, adding on his own, "and save Giuliano from the police...
Longer than Empire. The man of this faith was born a Roman Catholic in the shadow of Cologne's magnificent twin-spired cathedral. His father, a minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy...
...administrator. He helped found Cologne's university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth all one's energies to protect and cherish...
Union. Although the C.D.U. was the direct descendant of the former Center party, there was a big difference. The Center had been almost entirely Roman Catholic; the C.D.U. broadened its base to include Protestant elements. A somewhat unwieldy conglomeration of religious groups, of Ruhr industrialists and Christian trade unionists, the C.D.U. owes its political effectiveness to Adenauer. Dignified and charming in a stately sort of way, he smoothed party crises with the silk-gloved infighting tactics he had used with his city council in Cologne. Political friends and enemies alike call...
Without doubt, when the hour of great revelation comes, it will be most solemn, and all the Christian world will hail it with renewed manifestations of faith and gratitude." These words over the Vatican radio last week heightened the anticipation that was spreading throughout the Roman Catholic world: had the tomb...