Word: eugene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Berlin's own electors be dropped into a separate urn to underline the city's position as a four-power occupied area; on this "special status" of Berlin hangs much of the Western legal argument at Geneva. But the boss of West Germany's Bundestag, Eugen Ger-stenmaier, capturing the mood of many patriots, was determined to dramatize the opposite-that West Berlin indeed is part and parcel of the Federal Republic, which, according to a West German Constitutional Court ruling...
...instead, the transcript confirmed that Adenauer had thought Erhard lacked enough "experience" and "one has to be cautious." Cried Erhard: "It's bad democratic practice if the impression circulates abroad that here's a man in his 84th year and after him there will be nothing." Added Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag: Adenauer is "going too far." What looked to be a storm dying out, said Gerstenmaier, is now a storm "swelling to a head...
...Adenauer got tougher at a meeting of the party executive. He sent Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier raging from the room with a sneering, "I know you don't like me. You never liked me." Then he demanded a loyalty pledge from the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus. Shaken by his thunder and his vast reputation, and frightened of a disastrous party split, the dissenters meekly voted ja, approving a statement that "by unanimous decision the party agreed to form a united front in defense of the Chancellor...
Deputy after Deputy pleaded with Adenauer to reconsider. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag, said bluntly: "Herr Chancellor, none of your arguments sound convincing." Rasped Adenauer: "If you don't like my decision, you are free to elect another Chancellor...
...obviously intends to have a big say in choosing and counseling the next Chancellor (who will be elected by the Bundestag). He hopes to follow the example of his friend De Gaulle in influencing events from an eminence. Perhaps he will be less influential than he foresees. Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier has already warned that "there must be no twisting of the constitution on any account," and others argue that real power inevitably remains in the Chancellor's control of party patronage...