Word: bonne
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Last week in Warsaw, in a dramatic step toward conciliation, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski and his West German counterpart, Walter Scheel, initialed a treaty designed to restore normal relations between the two countries and capped it with a champagne toast. The treaty, said Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn, would be "a liberating step toward a better Europe-a Europe in which borders no longer divide. That is what the youth of our countries expect and we no longer want to burden them with the past. Instead, we want to give them a new beginning...
...Germans pledged to respect present frontiers in Europe. The treaty, however, has not yet been ratified. Since the Czechoslovaks, Hungarians and Bulgarians are soon expected to start talks with West Germany, East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht feels increasingly isolated. Last week he agreed to reopen the dialogue with Bonn, which was broken off last May after the fruitless second summit meeting. In the Treaty of Warsaw, Bonn renounces its claim to the 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers that was ceded to Poland after World War II as compensation...
...ties with the East Bloc and to overcome the rigidities of the cold war. He proposed a gradual easing of tension by a process he described as deéenté, entente, coopération. He recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and urged Bonn to do the same. He also urged international acceptance of East Germany. The basic outlines of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik were traced several years earlier by De Gaulle. In the Middle East, De Gaulle dropped his support of Israel following the 1967 war. Then, after reprimanding the Jews...
...astonishment of his Egyptian friends, the rusty-haired Lotz was disclosed in 1965 to be an Israeli spy. Lotz's explanation was persuasive enough to save his life. He joined the Israelis, he said, because they had threatened to reveal his Nazi past to the Bonn authorities. Besides, there was the convincing detail that he was uncircumcised. The court let him off with a 25-year sentence, and only three years later Lotz and his German wife Waldrud were turned over to the Israelis in an exchange of prisoners. Along with nine Israeli captives, the Lotzes were swapped...
...Four agreed that West Germany, East Germany and the West Berlin Senate should work out an agreement on the first two issues. But this contains the seeds of a troublesome problem. If West Berlin is treated as a separate and equal partner in negotiating the first two points, Bonn's argument that the city is a part of the federal republic will be undermined. That would reinforce the Soviet contention that West Germany should not be allowed to represent West Berlin diplomatically throughout the Western world as it now does, but that the city should have its own foreign...