Five weeks after his landslide victory in the general election, Konrad Adenauer last week was re-elected Chancellor for a new four-year term, by a Bundestag vote of 304 to 148. His 156-vote majority gives Adenauer one of the strongest parliamentary mandates of any leader in Western Europe.
Yet, impressive as his victory was, it fell short of the two-thirds majority he counted on: two Deputies among his supporters opposed him, and 14 others of them abstained. Behind this unexpected opposition lay a curious fact: the very size of Adenauer's success worries many Germans who were glad he had won....
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