Word: swabians
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...days last week, it seemed as if the episode could be avoided entirely. Bearing an important message, Ambassador Tsarapkin helicoptered 170 miles from Bonn to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's weekend home in Stuttgart. Over glasses of light Swabian wine, the two men chatted amiably as the Soviet diplomat explained a way out for both sides. If the West Germans would withdraw the Federal Assembly from West Berlin, the East Germans would allow West Berliners to pass through the Wall during the Easter holidays to visit relatives in East Berlin, the first such passage permitted in three years...
...delighted children the world over. As the town's biggest employer, the family has also endeared itself to the burghers of Giengen (pop. 14,000), a community of cobblestone streets and gingerbread houses that has nestled for the past 900 years in the wooded foothills of the Swabian Alps. Although it seems an anomaly in such a storybook setting, the bronze bust of Theodore Roosevelt in the lobby of Giengen's town hall is there for good reason: the Steiff company is best known for its line of Teddy bears, a product that takes its name from...
Stauffenberg was a Roman Catholic, an aristocrat, a family man, and a person of culture in the traditional German romantic, almost mystical mold. His Swabian antecedents were landowners and officials ennobled in Wurttem-berg for services to the state. He was regarded by military men, including a chief of staff of the Wehrmacht, as a "natural commander." Even in intellectual circles, he was recognized as having a peculiar distinction of spirit. His face mirrored both the mystic and the soldier. Although a Catholic, Stauffenberg found an added outlet for his private form of religion in the "circle of Stefan George...
...decision on any changes in German armed strength before consulting President Johnson, whom he will visit in Washington beginning Aug. 15. Schroder so far has not been asked to go along. In fact, the two are not at all compatible. The austere North German Defense Minister and the relaxed Swabian could hardly be more unlike in taste, temperament and several areas of policy. Schroder, the only unremitting Atlanticist in the coalition Cabinet, is resented by both Kiesinger and Strauss for emphasizing ties with Washington over those with Charles de Gaulle. But Kiesinger can hardly fire Schroder. He is the leader...
...Johnson talked most with Kurt Kiesinger. It was the President's first chance to meet the new West German Chancellor, and he found the tall Swabian a far more formidable conferee than the compliant Ludwig Erhard had been. The first meeting was supposed to be only a 15-minute hello session; it lasted eight times that long. Kiesinger brought up the nettlesome matter of U.S.-German consultations; he was upset that when the U.S. recently decided to pull out of Germany 20,000 troops and 144 F-105 fighter-bombers, he had learned of the moves in the press...