Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damaging and place a burden on efforts to reach a detente." Despite the good personal relations between the two men (they met five times while Brandt was still West Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with the East bloc -a policy whose moderate success in Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade and Budapest obviously seemed to Ulbricht and his Soviet backers to be a dangerous flanking operation...
...Berlin crisis, evidently convinced Brandt that the Soviets did not have another East-West confrontation in mind. He downgraded the East German travel restrictions as formalities that were fully within East Germany's rights, but denied that they were the result of Soviet-East German consultations. If Bonn did not like the new measures, Abrasimov archly suggested, the simplest way to resolve the situation was for it to recognize the East German government as an independent sovereign state and to establish normal diplomatic relations. In fact, Abrasimov stressed that Moscow regards West Germany's attitude toward East Germany...
...summoning Brandt to East Berlin, the Soviets served notice that they will use their influence to frustrate Bonn's efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
...news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew in a U.S. Air Force plane to West...
...most-restricting inter-German trade-since that would also hurt the average East German. Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition is committed to a policy of trying to make life easier, not harder, for the East German population. Furthermore, because of the partial success of its new Ostpolitik, Bonn does not want to lose friends in Communist countries by appearing to be as repressive as Ulbricht...