Word: schr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week was that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seemed to be in a terrible mood. Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it. At noon a cable signed Schröder was placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons. No one he had talked to, reported Schroder...
Doing Business. This time, Adenauer came to do business. He spent 13 hours in on-and-off discussions so private that even West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder was kept mostly in the dark about what went on. After one of Adenauer's meetings with Kennedy, Schröder approached the Chancellor to ask what the talk had been about, got a frosty brushoff. "My dear fellow," said Adenauer, "it was a private conversation. If I told you, it would no longer be private...
...picked as West Germany's new Foreign Minister is a tall, smoothly handsome Saarlander who owes his job and much of his political style to Konrad Adenauer. But Gerhard Schröder, 51, is far more insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only...
...Germany's postwar politics, Schröder has shared Adenauer's impatience with parliamentary institutions, argues that the nation needs "a strong government, strongly led." Schröder, who was named deputy floor leader for Adenauer's Christian Democrats in 1952 and has been Interior Minister since 1953, has not hesitated to warn opponents that a vote against the Chancellor is a vote for Communism. Among politicians, Schröder's boyish subservience to Adenauer has earned him the title "Bonn's oldest young man." He is nonetheless a seasoned political infighter whose cunning...
...minor railroad official, Schröder was perennial head of his class and still, say his foes, has the star pupil's condescending manner. From Königsberg University, Law Student Schröder went to the University of Edinburgh, finished his studies with a doctorate from Cologne. He says he quit the Nazi Party in 1941, when he married a part-Jewish woman. After the war, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf...