"When I am no longer there, I do not know what will happen to Germany," Chancellor Adenauer once said. Yet the sturdy shepherd of postwar Free Germany has long refused to designate a political heir, because to do so suggests his own withdrawal from the scene. Last week, politically beleaguered, the old (80) Chancellor gave in to the pleadings of his Christian Democratic followers and agreed to install a No. 2 man. The heir: For eign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 52, who will soon be made Vice Chancellor, will also remain in charge of the Foreign Ministry.
The move, when...
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