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University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 3, 1962
Adenauer Era May Be Near Its End in Germany
By John Callcott
ECNN — (UPI) — West Germany may be nearing the end of its "Adenauer Era."
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who will be 87 in January, is facing demands from his own Christian Democratic Party that he name his successor, and it is unlikely that he will remain in office for much more than another year.
Adenauer begins his 14th year of chancellorship this month. Germany's first and only chancellor since the first postwar West German government was formed in 1949, Adenauer's leadership has outlasted Adolf Hitler's third reich, which lasted just over 12 years.
DURING THESE years Adenauer has given Germany new political stability and helped make it one of the world's richest nations. Above all, Adenauer has earned recognition of the federal republic as a leading member of the free world community of nations.
Adenauer's achievements, his drive for Western unity and his tough opposition to Communism, led President Kennedy recently to call him "a great defender of freedom."
The chancellor's popularity two years ago was incredible despite his age. But then it began to slip.
MANY GERMANS would have liked Adenauer to assume the position of president. The chancellor first said he would run for the job but then changed his mind because he would no longer be able to steer German policy in a time of cold war tension.
The general elections in September
last year marked what Adenauer's friends and enemies alike
called the "beginning of the end."
Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party (CDU) lost their absolute majority in parliament and the chancellor was forced — at a price—to accept the middle-of-the-road Free Democrats (FDP) into a coalition.
THE POLITICAL partnership between the two parties began badly and gradually worsened. Adenauer himself had to agree to retire by the fall of 1963 to make way for a younger man. The FDP repeatedly makes it clear it will hold him to this promise.
Although "Der Alte" (the old man) is still full of vigor and political fire, his retirement pledge is giving Germany what Germans call a "Regierung auf Zeit," or a "marking time government."
ADENAUER REMAINS remarkably healthy for a man of his age.
His close aides say he does need his customary after-lunch nap, however. There have also been unconfirmed reports in the German and foreign press that Adenauer has an occasional lapse due to exhaustion if he is forced to miss this siesta.
Adenauer's wit is as sharp as ever. He knows full well that his new foreign minister, Gerhard Schroeder, has some very concrete ideas of his own.
Asked recently about Germar foreign policy, Adenauer promptly retorted "Whose policy do you mean? Mine or Mr. Schroeder's?"
KU-Y To Organize Campus Model Senate
The organizational meeting of the first Model Senate at KU will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Room 306 of the Kansas Union.
Freshmen only are eligible to participate in the presentation Feb.22 and 23.
Rick Solum, Leawood freshman, and Charles Thayer, Abilene freshman, co-chairmen of the project, report, that the Model Senate will be similar to the Model U.N.
The project originated from a KU-Y freshman steering committee program headed by Tom Moore, executive secretary of the KU-Y, and Patricia Kendell, Holton junior, upperclass adviser to the freshman KU-Y.
ONE HUNDRED STUDENTS will be chosen to represent senators from each of the fifty states. A president, clerks, pages, sergeant-at-arms, and other officers of the Senate will also be chosen.
Freshmen interested in participating in this program may sign on posters in freshman living groups or in the KU-Y office, room 111 of the Kansas Union.
Legislation in the Model Senate will be presented through one of five discussion areas. They are:
- Foreign relations
- Civil liberties
THIS REMARK had more than humorous significance. Not long ago Adenauer would never have admitted that one of his ministers might have other ideas about policy. In fact it would have been extremely unlikely that there was such a minister.
- Education
- Health and Welfare
Adenauer has never hidden the fact that his is a one-man leadership. When he received a letter from President Kennedy not long ago an aide asked him if a copy should be sent to the foreign minister.
- Agriculture
Educational: learning the processes of government.
THE PURPOSES OF THE MODEL SENATE as cited by Thayer are:
Public Relations for the Younger Generation: showing ourselves and others that younger people are not a passive generation and are concerned about government and citizens of the world.
Moral: realizing the meaning of government and how to be more competent citizens.
SOLUM EXPRESSED a second purpose in the establishment of the Model Senate. He said, "This idea originated because freshmen in the model have had difficulty getting into the Model U.N. due to upperclass competition. The KU-Y believes that freshmen at KU are capable of conducting an activity such as this by themselves."
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"Oh no, this is a private letter for me." Adenauer said, folding it up and putting it in his inside jacket pocket.
THE GENERAL PUBLIC is only too ready to acknowledge the chancellor's achievements. People who vote socialist are quick to agree that they have Adenauer to thank for Germany's position today.
"But the man is 86," most everyone says with an expressive shrug. Some members of Adenauer's party feel that he should continue as chancellor as long as he is able. They are rapidly becoming a minority, however.
Just what Adenauer himself thinks about his age is unknown. There is no one who would dare ask him outright.
HIS CLOSEST FRIEND, banker Robert Pfrerrdings, once told Adenauer the joke about one of the chancellor's 23 grandchildren asking him, "Granddad, can I be chancellor when I'm grown up?" and Adenauer replying, "don't be silly, we can't have two chancellors."
Pferrdmenges, who died earlier this year, refused to comment on Adenauer's reaction.
The "Der Spiegel" news magazine affair contributed to, but was not the sole reason for the split between Adenauer and the FDP.
Adenauer's CDU and the FDP were never happy together in their one-year coalition for several reasons.
SOME OF THE BASIC differences between the two parties affect Germany's foreign and domestic policies.
The FDP always showed its dislike of Adenauer's policy towards the East Bloe nations. It felt the government should make better use of its existing contacts with several Communist nations, particularly Poland and Czechoslovakia, and try to establish diplomatic relations with these nations.
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New Journal to Publish StudentResearchWork
A new scientific journal named "Search" has been established at KU to publish undergraduate research work on an annual basis and is now accepting manuscripts for publication.
Delbert Shankel, assistant professor of bacteriology, says any undergraduate doing research in the natural sciences, physical sciences or social sciences is eligible to submit manuscripts.
THE DEADLINE for submitting manuscripts is January 5. The magazine will be released in May.
The author of an accepted manuscript will receive either a subscription to a national scientific magazine of his choice or membership in a national scientific society of his choice.
The manuscript, Prof. Shankel says, can be submitted in any form so long as the style is acceptable to a national journal in the writer's own field. The manuscripts will be judged by members of the "Search" committee and sent to an authority on the paper's subject for further criticism and editing.
"Search" is a publication of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
STUDENTS submitting manuscripts can give them to any member of the "Search" committee. They are: Pat Baude, Topeka junior and "Search" chairman; Frank Thompson, Iola junior; Ralph Tremain, Salina junior; Frank Shobe, Great Bend junior; Susan Whitley, Lawrence junior; Prof. Shankel; Ray Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology; Arnold Strassenburg, associate professor of physics; and Charles Sidman, assistant professor of history.
OneKUStudent Dies, Another Injured In Separate Accidents
A KU junior was killed and a sophomore injured in separate traffic accidents Saturday.
Nicholas Marcellino, 24-year-old Long Island, N. Y., engineering student, was killed almost instantly in a one-car accident at 1:30 a.m. on the Kansas Turnpike about 18 miles west of the West Lawrence Interchange.
HE SUFFERED a skull fracture according to Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Don Lindesmith. The body was taken to a Topeka mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
A passenger, Ruth Hart, 22, Topeka, suffered severe cuts and bruises and was taken to a Topeka hospital. Her condition was serious Saturday. She was dismissed Sunday.
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Trooper Lindensmith said Miss Hart told him they were eastbound when Marcellino apparently lost control of the vehicle. The car went through the median strip into the westbound lane of traffic, struck a bridge and overturned.
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THE KU STUDENT injured in the other accident Saturday was William Dale, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
He suffered chest and jaw injuries in a one-car accident south of Lawrence. The sports car he was riding in missed a curve and overturned.
The driver of the car, Joe Jay Heinerickson, Leawood, was not injured. Dale was in satisfactory condition Saturday at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
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