Little Bonn, on the west bank of the Rhine, bustled to prepare itself as the world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of...
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