Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muttering in Bonn. Behind the dizzying series of different proposals, some observers-especially in West Germany-detected a growing disarray in the West's alliance. In Bonn there was muttering about a tack of U.S. leadership, complaints that the wearily continuing talks between U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Russia's Andrei Gromyko in Moscow were doing a lot of harm; to a political meeting, Adenauer cracked that Thompson should not make a career of negotiating with the Russians. The Belgians were still grumbling about the lack of their allies' support in the Congo. Portugal made ugly noises...
...they had done several times before in Berlin's war of nerves. Most kept their distance, but not all. One U.S. Air Force Globemaster pilot reported that a "stranger" zoomed to within 20 ft. of his wingtip, and a plane carrying Sir Christopher Steel, the British ambassador in Bonn, was buzzed by high-diving Communist pilots...
...Indonesia, where rioting students last week broke the windows of the U.S. embassy. Beyond that was Thailand, whose government is nervous about Communist inroads in nearby Laos and Viet Nam, expects to hear reassuring words from the President's brother. After that would come visits to Rome, Berlin, Bonn. The Hague and Paris-and finally the return to Washington...
Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov kept pleading, with anyone who would listen, for separate negotiations between Russia and West Germany. Breaking precedent, Smirnov even showed up at a U.S. newsman's cocktail party in Bonn to buttonhole guests with his persistent questions: "Why are you afraid to let the West Germans talk...
...fact, the U.S. has little objection to Moscow-Bonn talks so long as they are coordinated with the U.S., Britain and France in advance. But this is not what Moscow has in mind at all: it wants to huddle with the West Germans in complete isolation, split the Western allies. To plug the idea further, Smirnov issued informal invitations to a Herrenabend (stag evening) at the Soviet embassy, where he hoped to persuade key members of the parliament over caviar and vodka. Back in his office after a two-week bout with flu, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer got wind of Smirnov...