Word: bonne
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Anderson then took off on what he called "a sentimental journey" to West Berlin, where in the early '50s he was married to his wife Keke while serving as a young Foreign Service officer. In Bonn, he talked with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for two hours and pleased West German leaders by faulting Carter for failing to consult European allies more often...
...Hamburg and Munich in order to tour what he called l'Allemagne profonde (Germany in depth). His stops included Baden-Baden, Kassel, Würzburg and Lübeck, all towns with populations under 230,000. He also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often looking more populist than patrician, the spindly French President plunged into the crowds, delighting them with a spate of French-accented German phrases...
Politics was rarely absent from the pageantry, and Giscard seized several occasions to assert what he called the "independence and power of Europe." At a state banquet near Bonn, for example, he startled his hosts somewhat by calling for a "renaissance of European influence," led by France and Germany, and "the reappearance of an independent and self-assured Europe in world affairs...
Giscard's strong language prompted West German officials to assure Washington privately that Bonn remained solidly pro-West and pro-NATO. Taking a softer line in his public pronouncements, Schmidt carefully avoided Giscard's themes of "power" and "influence" in favor of blander and more ecumenical expressions of "cooperation and friendship...
...creation of a joint European nuclear defense program that would combine French know-how with West German financial resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that "we are not a nuclear power, nor do we intend to become...