Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...question at NATO's Paris meeting-nuclear arms-is also at heart a German question. France's President Charles de Gaulle raised the whole subject by insisting on creating his own independent nuclear striking force. What...
Youngest and toughest member of Adenauer's Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he walks with the stiff, lurching gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, his head square and massive. But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem...
...prizes in Latin, somewhat offset by his predilection for rowdy pranks, which kept his grades in deportment low and his popularity with fellow students high. He developed a passion for bicycling, once entered a 75-mile cross-country bike race, and won it, earning himself the title of "South German Road Champion." Resisting pressure to join the Nazis, he enrolled himself and his new motorcycle in the innocuous National Socialist Motorized Corps, which was little more than a sports club. At Munich University, he ranked at the top in all examinations, seemed destined for teaching. Even after he was drafted...
...street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road to political power...
Democratic Boots. At home, Strauss had to combat a deep-seated antipathy to anything that smacked of militarism. Invited to join the fight against the new threat from the east, the first reaction of German youth was "Ohne mich" (Without me). Soldiers in uniform were booed in public places, and the Socialist opposition attacked every defense measure as a "provocation" to the Russians, and a blow to the negotiations for reunification...