Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BARRING a last-minute hitch, a special train will speed eastward from Bonn one night this week on what could prove to be the most historic journey in postwar German history. The express will halt briefly at the small town of Gerstungen on the border between West and East Germany. There an East German engine and crew will take over to pull the train the remaining 40 miles to the ancient city of Erfurt. The next morning, when West German Chancellor Willy Brandt steps from his sleeping car at the Erfurt station, he will be greeted by Willi Stoph...
...Willy-Willi meeting by insisting on impossible demands, most notably that Brandt travel to East Berlin without setting foot in West Berlin, the city he served as mayor for almost a decade. Refusing to take nein for an answer, Brandt suggested a meeting in any other city. To Bonn's amazement, the East German regime proposed Erfurt as the site...
...addition, the East Germans reversed their earlier demands and agreed to a minimum of pomp. Brandt will not be required to inspect an East German honor guard or to listen to the playing of the two national anthems. Perhaps most important of all, the East Germans accepted Bonn's proposal for a second summit, to be held after Erfurt somewhere in West Germany...
Sudden Switch. The crucial factor in East Germany's sudden switch was in all likelihood the influence of the Soviets, who are also engaged in negotiations with Bonn. Concerned that a deadlock between the two Germanys would hamper progress on other fronts, the Soviets apparently prevailed upon East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht to give his go-ahead to the Brandt-Stoph summit. When the meeting was finally scheduled, the Soviet embassy in Bonn issued a terse statement that left no doubt about Moscow's attitude. Said the Russians: "We welcome...
...years later to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, he had moonlighted in wartime Washington as one of half a dozen key figures managing the development of the atomic bomb. While he never made the Cabinet, in 1955 he became the first American ambassador to the newly sovereign Bonn government. Before and since, he has sowed sensible, evolutionary ideas in U.S. education...