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Adenauer

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Ad·en·au·er  (dn-our, äd-), Konrad 1876-1967.
First chancellor of West Germany (1949-1963), under whom the country began economic reconstruction and became a member of NATO and the Common Market.

Adenauer (German) [ˈaːdənauər]
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(Biographies / Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967) M, German, POLITICS: statesman) Konrad (ˈkɔnraːt). 1876-1967, German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (l949-63)
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Noun1.Adenauer - German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967)


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"If there is no deep process of soul-searching on both the Jewish and Arab sides in Israel, and if things are left as they are, we are on a clear collision course," warned Elie Rekhess, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University's Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
He contacted German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and obtained permission for his planes to refuel in Germany while on their mission to Budapest.
Grass condemned Adenauer and his Catholic narrowness ("we had Adenauer, horrible, with all the lies and with the whole Catholic foul air") and he argued that not even the Nazis had been as philistine and petit bourgeois as the Adenauer '50s.
 
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