Word: schaumburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated in a Baroque armchair in his elegant office in Palais Schaumburg, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week described his vision of a "new Germany" in an interview with Benjamin Gate, TIME's Bureau Chief in Bonn. The Chancellor spoke in fluent hut slightly stiff English, smoking cigarettes and rolling wooden matches between his fingers while he pondered his answers...
...hair almost reaches his shoulders, said last week that even though he considers himself a member of A.P.O. (the far-left Anti-Parliamentary Opposition), he favored his father's coalition. But he expressed serious reservations about having to move from the Brandt home in Venusberg to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, the residence of German Chancellors...
...rooms are perfect for In-timpolitik. Presiding over all is Owner-Hostess Ria Alzen, a 55-year-old divorcee of quick wit and ready warmth. Because of her, the restaurant is usually referred to merely as Ria's, and the establishment is as well known as the Palais Schaumburg...
...greet Ria, a fellow Rhinelander, in local dialect; he became a regular. Successor Ludwig Erhard became another steady; the day he succeeded der Alte as Chancellor, Ria sent him a Wedgwood tureen brimful of his favorite split pea soup. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who prefers to dine at the Schaumburg, has not maintained the custom...
...strongly rejected the accusations of the Soviets, whom the allies hold responsible for ensuring freedom of access to West Berlin. In a last-minute effort to avert a crisis, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger summoned Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin for an extraordinary 2½-hour session at the Palais Schaumburg, but failed to find a solution. After an emergency session of the West Berlin Senate, Mayor Klaus Schütz appealed to West Berliners to remain calm. They were bracing for what many of them expected might develop into the severest threat to the city's economic viability since...