Word: schroders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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, had any solid evidence that the Soviets were about to make any unusual new trouble for Berlin...
Palaver at State. Both London and Paris essentially agreed with Schroder's estimate. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had a three-hour talk with Ambassador Foy Kohler in which he delivered no warnings, and pushed no harder than before. In Washington, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at his own request, saw Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk. As usual, Gromyko was adamant; at a State Department dinner the dialogue droned on roughly like this...
Back in Bonn, Adenauer's views were publicly disavowed by his Foreign Minister, Gerhard Schroder, who declared in a magazine interview that Europe had everything to gain from political and economic partnership with Britain. Though Schroder later explained that he had expressed this view without reference to Adenauer's prerecorded TV interview, he effectively strengthened his position as a successor to the Chancellor with the majority of West Germany's Protestant voters, who are generally more eager to bring Britain into Europe than to strengthen Germany's ties with France...
...Challenge. Short-circuited by Schroder and harshly rebuked for his tactlessness by opposition German papers, Adenauer kept silent. On the eve of De Gaulle's visit, he was plainly unwilling to take any corrective action that might seem to be currying favor with Britain...
Even this semiconcession is anathema to many West Germans. But Bonn's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder is now backing Rusk's package, against the opposition of many prominent members of his own Christian Democratic Party. At the NATO meeting in Athens this week, Rusk will have a chance to brief Schroder and the other Western Allies on the latest in the U.S.-Soviet talks, sample their moods and rally their support. No matter what the West Germans do, France will doubtless remain stiffly aloof, for Charles de Gaulle remains adamantly opposed to any Berlin negotiations "under threat." Besides...