Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiery follower lay in a hospital bed last week, Gamal Abdel Nasser scored one of his greatest diplomatic victories by playing it cool. It began with an invitation to East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht to pay a six-day "friendship visit" to Cairo, beginning Feb. 26. Bonn's reaction was one of noisy panic at this threat to the Hallstein Doctrine, which decrees that any nation giving diplomatic recognition to East Germany must forfeit its ties with West Germany...
...last time the two had met in Bonn, De Gaulle had pointedly kept Erhard waiting a quarter of an hour while he reminisced with Adenauer about the solidarity of the good old days. But now as Erhard's black Citroën pulled up before De Gaulle's 14th century cháteau at Rambouillet, the German flag was smartly run up the crenelated tower looming over the courtyard, and there was a smiling Charles himself waiting with outstretched arms for the Chancellor. And in some six hours of talk that followed, De Gaulle was all paternal charm...
...Arabs' second main goal was intended to force reduction of West German aid to Israel. The Arab Pre miers warned Bonn that they just might retaliate by recognizing East Germany. This heavy-handed blackmail was rejected by Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, who replied: "It goes too far when some other state, against which we have nothing, tries to stop us from giving aid to Israel...
Past experience has shown that joint Arab threats are seldom followed by joint Arab action. The diversion of the Jordan waters, even if construction is ever started, will take some six years to complete. And the blackmail against Bonn may well backfire, since the West German aid of $242 million to the 13 Arab states would be cut off with the breaking of diplomatic relations. That is a sum the Arabs could scarcely hope to obtain from East Germany...
...personalities were. Moscow's new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin would hardly be prepared at this early date to make major decisions on so basic an element of Soviet foreign policy as the German question. It was, after all, the fear of some new Khrushchev initiative toward Bonn that spurred his adversaries in the Kremlin to throw...