Word: konrad
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...
...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...
Dramatic Gesture. Off to Bonn flew Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to talk like a Dutch uncle to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, demanding that the prosperous West Germans help stop the steady drain of U.S. gold reserves, which last week dipped below $18 billion for the first time since 1940. Anderson's major demand was that Adenauer shoulder the costs of keeping U.S. troops in West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure...
...West Germans into parting with enough Deutsche Mark to make a major dent in the increasing deficit (an estimated $4 billion for 1960) in the U.S.'s international balance of payments. Brushing aside the cautionary briefings of U.S. diplomats on the spot, Anderson confronted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard with a peremptory demand that Bonn take over at once the $600 million annual cost of maintaining the 250,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in West Germany...
With the whisperers' charges met, Candidate Brandt launched into a rousing political attack on Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats. It would be an uphill struggle running against wily old Chancellor Adenauer, 84. Brandt showed he was ready to take some lessons from a man almost his own age, Jack Kennedy. If elected, Brandt promised that Germany would move forward to become a "model state" but not "a sleepy welfare state." Brandt has already thrown overboard most of the Marxist trappings of his party. In foreign policy, he said, Germany must stand firmly in the Western camp...