Word: brentano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering to let Brentano know the final results. While the Foreign Office remained ignorant, one man continued to share the Chancellor's secrets: State Secretary Hans Globke, the indispensable confidential clerk who-his enemies never let him forget-25 years ago wrote the official commentary on the Nazis' racial laws. Last...
Even his private advisers urged him to lay off. His Foreign Minister, Heinrich von Brentano, flatly contradicted his remarks on Geneva. Maddest of all, Ludwig Erhard demanded a public apology, but all he got from the Chancellor was a grudging brushoff. "Honorable Herr Erhard." wrote Adenauer in a personal letter, "I am of the opinion that we must not offer a spectacle of dispute to the public. Therefore, I do not intend to reply to your arguments." Bowing to pleas of party conciliators, he added: "You know I attach the greatest importance to further harmonious collaboration with you." But that...
WEST GERMANY: Both German delegations were sitting in a strictly advisory capacity, and Bonn's Foreign Minister von Brentano would not even flatter the East Germans by his presence...
Complete Plan. In closed-door secrecy, the U.S.'s Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano went over proposals developed by their hard-working careermen. Britain's Lloyd said he thought that the West should offer some concession to the U.S.S.R. to lure the Kremlin into detailed talks on Germany; then, with Russian interest whetted, suggest some concessions by the Communists. Couve de Murville and Von Brentano said they thought the West should...
Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano said, "We should be realistic and we should not expect too much of the forthcoming East-West conference in Geneva." But he too found "some optimism" in the fact that the Soviet Union has agreed to a foreign ministers' conference starting...