Word: west
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...Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as yet quite free-still distrusted by the outside world, beset with grave economic problems, vestiges of hatred and despair...
Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...
Adenauer's devotion to Cologne and his native Rhineland gave rise to an abiding dislike for Prussia. His eyes were turned West (he is known for his strong pro-French sympathies). Adenauer-who does not drink-once said...
...Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program...
...Alleghenies. The two teams had almost monopolized the National League pennant since 1940-the Cards won it four times and the Dodgers twice-and it was clear to all but the die-hards of mathematical chance that one of them was going to do it again. As far west as San Francisco last week, Dow-Jones tickers carried the inning-by-inning score to boardrooms, and fans clustered around radio sets as St. Louis, nursing a two-game lead, came face-to-face with the Dodgers in a three-game series in Brooklyn...