Word: saarlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Egon Reinert, 50, Prime Minister of the Saar, a leader in Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbrücken, West Germany...
...Just look around you and see for yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters to their homes explaining that the whole idea was to sell "people's shares" to small investors like themselves. Wolfsburg, like...
During World War II, Rochling bossed Lorraine's iron and steel production plus Saarland industry. At war's end, an Allied court found Hermann Röchling guilty of waging aggressive war, the first industrialist so convicted, jailed him for two years. After Hermann's death at 83 last year, administration of the family empire fell to his nephew Ernst Röchling, 66, who in 1949 had been sentenced to five years behind French barbed wire...
...Chancellor startled Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak by asking his help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. A few days later, during a twelve-hour session to settle the terms for the return of the rich Saarland to West Germany next year, Adenauer broached his atomic-weapons scheme to French Premier Guy Mollet. Mollet. obviously forewarned. sidestepped. But the question was still there to be answered: Shall renascent West Germany be allowed to have nuclear arms? Spaak politely refused...
After this blunt reference to recent statements by German leaders in the dispute with France over the Saarland (TIME, Feb. 6), McCloy said: "Agitation of foreign issues, however tempting, cannot distract attention from vital domestic issues and from the pressing need for domestic reforms...