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...Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany's best friend is the U.S. (Strauss is inclined to think it's De Gaulle). Strauss also called for removal of Erich Mende, chief of the Free Democrats and a longtime Strauss-hater, from his coalition post as Minister...
Strauss got an assist from a fellow Gaullist, that wily old (89) wheeler-dealer ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer proclaimed that President Heinrich Lübke, his great admirer, had every constitutional right to veto Erhard's Cabinet appointments. Schröder fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
...fact that Mende won't have him. Flying into Bonn to proclaim that he meant "to represent Bavarian interests," Strauss let it be known that his price for sitting out this administration might be Mende's head-and possibly the head of Foreign Minister Gerhard Schr...
...until the boy withdrew his name. Both Sides of the Street. The octogenarian provided a more prolonged distraction. He was the Christian Democrats' Konrad Adenauer, who was noisily upset about the nuclear nonproliferation blueprint unveiled by the U.S. at the Geneva disarmament talks. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, though none too pleased with a plan that could leave West Germany out in the cold bombwise, had politely praised it as "an interesting contribution." Erhard agreed, but not der Alte. In an address at Münster, one of some 50 campaign appearances scheduled by the doughty ex-Chancellor...
Going It Alone? The current eruption of the chronic horror was touched off at last month's NATO meeting in Paris. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, eager to do his bit for Wieder-vereinigung, tried to get the U.S., Britain and France to support an invitation to Russia for a four-power standing committee that would meet periodically to discuss the German problem. Neither Washington nor London was very interested, judging that Russia would turn down the invitation anyway, and France flatly refused. Schröder could only issue his own unilateral communiqu...