Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist seizure of former German lands after World War II-do not preclude the eventual reunification of Germany and the right to self-determination of all Germans, including those in East Germany. In a gesture aimed at helping the passage of the treaties, Moscow's ambassador in Bonn, Valentin Falin, passed the word that the Soviets would "take note" of such a declaration-provided the language was not too harsh...
With that goal in mind, the Soviets have been deeply concerned about West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's problems in persuading Bonn's Bundestag to ratify the 1970 treaties of Moscow and Warsaw (see following story). Brezhnev has personally committed his prestige to the normalization of relations with West Germany, and his entire diplomacy toward Western Europe, including the convocation of the security conference, hinges on Bonn's ratification of the treaties...
...that threatened to bring down the 2½-year-old coalition government of Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt. The crisis also endangered the Chancellor's Ostpolitik, the innovative foreign policy through which Brandt hopes to improve West Germany's relations with its Communist neighbors by renouncing Bonn's claims to onetime German territories, which were seized by Poland and Russia after World...
When the news of Mangakis' departure broke, it was assumed that the regime had secretly negotiated with Bonn to let the famous prisoner go (Mangakis is a close friend of West German Federal Cabinet Minister Horst Ehmke). Such arrangements, at U.S., French or British instigation, had previously resulted in the release of Professor Andreas Papandreou, Composer Mikis Theodorakis and Lady Amalia Fleming...
...Communists' Easter concessions were timed to place maximum pressure on West Germany to confirm the treaties of Warsaw and Moscow, which will be submitted to the Bundestag in early May. Unless Bonn ratifies the treaties, the Berlin agreement, and its clauses about freer access, will not go into effect. Hence, the East Germans and their Soviet supporters in effect were saying: "See, this is how it is going to be if the treaties are ratified. If they aren't, forget it." The Communists have hinted that the situation will get worse if Bonn fails to follow through...