Word: heinrich
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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...
Until last week the Christian Democrats did not even have a presidential candidate. After Adenauer rejected the post, an array of others refused to run. Finally, Adenauer got reluctant assent to run from his obscure Minister of Agriculture, the 64-year-old Heinrich Lübke, a Roman Catholic like Adenauer. Liübke has a clean prewar record-he was jailed by Hitler-and is generally popular, although, as the Neue Rhein Zeitung put it: "Until now, his name has been mentioned mainly in relation to the price of butter and the hog surplus...
Hans Holbein's first portrait of Henry VIII was a miniature, done in 1537 to win the King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating...
...robed lamas crouched on their haunches in a graveled courtyard while the 14-year-old Dalai Lama preached to them on the Tantric texts in a clear, boyish voice, but with the composure and assurance of an adult. A Tibetan-speaking Westerner was there, an Austrian named Heinrich Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while...
...mantle, although some have speculated on Finance Minister Franz Etzel's chances. In the years since Adenauer took office there have been several contenders for the succession: Schaeffer, the original Finance Minister was the first, but too unsavory a connection with past scandals descredited him. The present foreign minister Heinrich von Brento seems unable to generate enthusiasm; Franz-Josef Strauss, Defense Minister, not composer, was also in the running for a time...