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...Dirty Hands. From his office in Baden-Würtemberg, Kiesinger watched the prestige of Ludwig Erhard's government gradually deteriorating. Konrad Adenauer had warned that Erhard would be politically unskilled as Chancellor, but just about everyone put that down to an old man's churlishness. When Erhard took over in 1963, it proved all too true. Though smart, sincere and honest, Erhard did not care to dirty his hands in the invariable give-and-take of political battle. He expected the voters to follow him out of gratitude, and for a while they did. But politicians seldom survive long...
...Institution of a single gold bank with central office in Berlin, which with the exception of the State banks of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Baden, Saxony, shall be the sole bank of issue in Germany. The capital to be $100,000,000, part of which is to be raised in Germany and part abroad; the gold reserve to be at least 33 1-3% of the capital; the bank to be governed by a German Managing Board and a General Board of 14 members: seven Germans and a member from each of the following countries: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Holland...
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