The bitterest potion Konrad Adenauer had to swallow last week was dispensed by a politician young enoughand tough enoughto be his grandson. As boss of West Germany's right-wing Free Democrats, Erich Mende, 44, has remade an ineffectual, faction-riven third party into a political force with overwhelming appeal to disenchanted members of Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party. Since their ideas for an "independent" West German foreign policy may well have influence in a coalition government, the Free Democrats may also prove thorny to the entire West.
Halfway House. The party's opposition to der Alte rests...
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