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...real way the past is an important part of the present. And somehow this is much more appealing than desire to bury the past and look toward the future in, say, West Germany, where this summer a German journalist observing Henry Kissinger's personal popularity during his trip to Bonn remarked to an American colleague, "If he hadn't gone to the states, he would have become the chancellor of Germany." On a mass level, this sort of crass, unwritting forgetfulness would never be possible in Eastern Europe, though I might add that on a state level it is consciously...
...expected that such pressure would be exerted immediately. Last week, to the contrary, there were some superficial indications of progress that could be attributed at least partly to the accord. Bonn and Warsaw reached an interim agreement, for instance, providing for the repatriation of some 125,000 ethnic Germans (out of a total of 280,000) from Poland to West Germany. Cost to Bonn: almost $1 billion in credits and pensions. In addition, the conversations at Helsinki between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German Communist Boss Erich Honecker were said to have led to some progress...
...champion in the bilateral race was Chancellor Schmidt, who managed 14 meetings with 13 other leaders, many of them from Eastern Europe. His goals: to get the East Europeans to ease up on their reluctance to include West Berlin in agreements dealing with West Germany and to advance Bonn's already booming trade relations with the East...
...Gerald Ford, some of the most memorable moments of the trip occurred on the way to and from the Helsinki Conference. In Bonn, during a floating state dinner given by West German President Walter Scheel aboard a Rhine River cruise boat, Ford and his wife Betty danced exuberantly to a German band's rendition of The Field Artillery March and Dixie, though the exertion caused an exhausted Betty Ford to remain in bed the next day. He sipped a bit of local wine on a visit to the Rhine River town of Linz (the presidential verdict: "Delicious") and dropped...
President Ford's tour through Europe last week gave him no holiday from economic worries. During long meetings in Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt urged the U.S. to coordinate economic policy more closely with Europe and specifically to avoid any restrictive moves, such as raising interest rates, that could damage the chances for recovery abroad. Later, during the 35-nation European Security Conference in Helsinki, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing took Ford aside to restate his well-known position that a return to normal economic growth will not be possible without a thorough monetary...