Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need boldness, more boldness and always boldness." So said West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn last week as he toasted his distinguished French guest. By invoking the words of French Revolutionary Leader Georges Jacques Danton, Brandt hoped to nudge Georges Pompidou toward a breakthrough in the stalemated process of creating a larger and more unified European Economic Community. The French President was hesitant. "I am tempted to remain faithful to my fellow countryman, even though he came to a bad end," he replied, alluding to the fact that Danton was guillotined by rival revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror...
...most powerful politicians in Western Europe, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and French President Georges Pompidou, will meet this week in Bonn for their regular biannual consultations. The meeting promises to be somewhat strained, since the two men-each in need of burnishing his political image at home-will be urgently pushing virtually opposite views on the future of the European Economic Community. How-and whether-they resolve their differences will vitally affect the course of the Common Market, which appears to be in increasing disarray...
Even so, the Soviets have made a historic decision in favor of better relations with the West-and Bonn in particular. Eastern European leaders have little choice but to respond favorably to Brandt's overtures.Now, in anticipation of the increasing danger of cultural and political inroads, the East bloc regimes are trying to tighten internal discipline and stamp out the last remnants of a preCommunist society. Two examples...
...start "of a new era of clarification, of ideological realism, of diplomatic maturity in international relations." Never again, he predicted, would a local event, such as "the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans, unleash a world conflict." Yet while the two powers refrain from attacking each other, Bonn's pro-government paper Neue Rhein Zeitung contended, they "tacitly reserve the right to continue beating, tormenting and destroying the other partner's little brother...
...that the treaties were a sellout of German interests to Moscow. Privately, though, they hoped that the treaties would pass, so that the party should not bear the onus of holding up detente. Thus both sides procrastinated until the moment of truth arrived-and the result was what one Bonn political observer describes as "a grade-B performance-Brandt and Barzel...