Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carre. A missing embassy official, stolen secret files, and the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life in Bonn are all part of the puzzle in this novel of suspense and political intrigue...
...scene is the "recent future" in Bonn, a time of Britain's critical attempt to negotiate her way into the Common Market. Leo Harting, a minor official in the British embassy, has disappeared with secret files that could ruin the negotiations. Alan Turner, a counterespionage agent reminiscent of the half-burnt-out, seedy Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves...
...normal relations with the East bloc. But at that time, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht stonewalled Brandt's plan by ordering West German Reds to stay underground. Ulbricht feared that the West German diplomatic initiatives would isolate his unpopular satrapy; therefore he wanted to be able to denounce Bonn throughout Eastern Europe by pointing out the Federal Republic's "persecution" of Communists at home...
...that the Soviets have effectively halted, at least for the present, Bonn's diplomatic and economic penetration into Eastern Europe, Ulbricht has cleverly seized upon West Germany's earlier permissive attitude to set up a new party. By so doing, he and his Soviet superiors have accomplished two important goals: they have 1) founded a new, hard-lining party in Western Europe at a time when the major Western European parties have split with Moscow over the Czechoslovak invasion, and 2) created an instrument for stirring up political strife in the Federal Republic...
...move against the new Communist party will run the risk of unduly provoking the Soviets. At the same time, West German inaction toward the National Democrats will only provide the Soviets with another excuse to charge that "Nazism is again flourishing in full bloom on the political soil in Bonn," as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did last week before the United Nations' General Assembly...