Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gratifying to learn that the building has finally been rebuilt. It seems that the conscience of the Bonn government still needs a great deal of prodding...
...campaign to woo West Germany into bilateral political talks, Moscow dangles the bait of profitable trade agreements. Even without additional deals, reported Bonn last week, West German trade with the Soviet bloc last year topped $1 billion-13% higher than in 1960. (U.S.-German trade last year: about $2.3 billion.) Most of the exchange with Moscow consisted of West German machinery and semifinished metal goods for Soviet petroleum products and commercial gold used in jewelry. A third major category of Russian exports is foodstuffs, but, said one Bonn official last week: "There's a limit to how much caviar...
...compliments for West Germany were dazzling hints of trade treasures ahead; an "ocean-size market is waiting . . . but only a tiny part of existing possibilities is being used." Getting to the point last week. Radio Moscow spoke of "the spirit of Rapallo,"* and in a major switch, Pravda assured Bonn that none of this meant West Germany must become a "neutral" and leave NATO; relations could be "normalized" without breaking up existing blocs. In fact, it was hinted that Russia might drop the idea of a separate peace treaty with East Germany if the West Germans would open negotiations with...
...Bonn officials pooh-poohed the whole affair as an obvious effort to divide the West, and Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss declared that West Germany would "under no circumstances" change its policy. But the West German press and public clearly got a big charge out of all the unexpected attention. MOSCOW WOOING BONN AGAIN, boasted the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; headlined another paper: MOSCOW CONTINUES SOFT WAVE...
...appealing to the Free Democrats, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's coalition partners, whose backers -a cloudy mixture of old-line nationalists and big industrial interests-had always urged experimental bargaining with the Russians to test the chances of future German reunification. Their party boss, Dr. Erich Mende, suggested that Bonn take over part of the negotiations with Russia from the U.S.'s Moscow Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, who under present Allied agreement speaks for the West as a whole...