Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second most popular political figure in West Germany is not much of a politician. Economics Hero Ludwig Erhard rose to influence via cloistered university halls and ministerial planning rooms, innocent of the rough-and-tumble of politics that might have given him a ferocity in struggle, skill of maneuver in smoke-filled rooms, and a group of loyal local bosses all about him. Because he has no experience in such essentials of working democratic politics, it was an unequal contest last week when Erhard rose to do battle with that crusty veteran of the political wars, Konrad Adenauer...
...decision to step up to the presidency from the chancellorship, a post Erhard expected to inherit. The Economics Minister hastened home from Washington, angered not only by der Alte's cavalier change of mind but by numerous recent Adenauer slurs on Erhard's qualifications for West Germany's leadership. Alighting at Düsseldorf after an appropriately dramatic flight-his plane developed engine trouble, then was struck by lightning-Erhard threatened to resign from the Cabinet and denounced some "current lies." For one thing, he said, "I will fight the historical lie that I am less reliable...
...think a mean trick has been played on you," cried West Germany's largest newspaper, Bild-Zeitung, greeting Erhard's return. Influential Hamburg Publisher Dr. Gerd Bucerius, a Bundestag Deputy, had urged a vote of no confidence in Adenauer after taking a poll among 6,000 Famburgers and finding 92½% opposed to Adenauer's decision...
...Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to admit France alongside Britain and the U.S. in a tripartite NATO "political directorate." It is an old French grievance that the U.S. grants full international partnership to Britain, yet treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians, has "world responsibilities," and unless the U.S. and Britain agree to coordinate their strategy outside Europe (most specifically in Algeria), the alliance is not a genuine...
...week's end, as Margaret winged her way back home, a Lisbon editor irately complained that the fair was nothing but ''a party given by the British for the British in a conquered land." The West Germans, who have no monarchy, hope to open a Lisbon fair of their own some time...