World News 24-09-2002 Schroeder Fails To Win Favour With White House who: Gerhard Schroeder what: Sacks senior politicians who lashed out at George W Bush where: Berlin, Germany when: Yesterday snippet: "The United States served chilly notice to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder yesterday," writes The Independent`s Rupert Cornwell, "that it was in no mood to forgive and forget after his `red-green` coalition`s wafer-thin victory in Sunday`s German election." Herr Schröder "moved to repair an increasingly fraught relationship with the United States by sacking two senior politicians who had offended President Bush," reports Roger Boyes in The Times. So out went Justice Minister Herta Däubler-Gmelin, who last week compared Mr Bush`s rampant foreign policy to that of Adolf Hitler, along with Ludwig Stiegler, head of the Social Democratic parliamentary grouping, who, says Boyes, "had jokingly compared Mr Bush to a Roman Emperor lording it over his colonies". But The White House made gave Herr Schröder the cold shoulder when Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld described the German leader`s election campaign as "notably unhelpful". "Mr Schröder, meanwhile, stood by an anti-war stance that pollsters said may have delivered him a second, four-year term," says The Guardian. "Indeed, the chancellor`s room for manoeuvre has - if anything - been limited by the outcome. He was returned to office thanks entirely to a surge in backing for the pacifist Greens." [... more]

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