Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...when Dillon and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson flew to Bonn four weeks ago to demand that West Germany pay a bigger part of the Western defense bill, Dillon made it plain that he was out of sympathy with Anderson's gruff demands-a fact that may return to plague him as he takes Anderson...
...Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the birthplace of Beethoven, as "a favorite resting place for retired officials in the evening of their lives." Lacking first-line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village." The streets are cobbled, narrow, picturesquely obstructed by vegetable markets and, at one conspicuous intersection, by a medieval gate that funnels all traffic into a single lane. The main rail line between Cologne and Koblenz runs smack through...
When Chancellor Konrad Adenauer picked Bonn as temporary headquarters for the new federal republic of West Germany, it was supposed to serve only until Germany was reunified and Berlin restored as the rightful capital. In fact, its provisional character became a symbol of West Germans' refusal to acquiesce in the division of their country, and, as such, was sedulously maintained. Eleven years later the Ministry of Transport is still over a bank, Atomic Affairs in a hotel, Treasury in a castle on the Rhine. The diplomatic set is even more far-flung- the Russians in a former resort hotel...
Today, 335,000 people jam into Bonn and the surrounding towns. This year Chancellor Adenauer, whose foes always claimed he picked Bonn as the capital because his own home is right across the river in the village of Rhöndorf, prodded the Bonn municipality into drawing up a plan to widen streets, build railroad underpasses, and even clear blocks of old houses to make room for federal office buildings. Estimated cost: $150 million...
...would pay for it? Bonn's city fathers pointed out that they would not need to make the improvements if Bonn were not the capital, and federal budgeteers objected that such a commitment by the federal government would betray the long insistence that Germany must one day be reunited...