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...four months the shiny, glass-walled, neon-lighted German parliament building (Bundeshaus) at Bonn on the Rhine had been doubled in size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage...
Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...Little Bonn, on the west bank of the Rhine, bustled to prepare itself as the world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal...
...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...
...Four years after the Third Reich's to the Allies, German delegates at Bonn...