Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter, Kiesinger offered to have his state secretary, the country's highest-ranking civil servant, open talks with East German authorities in either Bonn or Berlin. "Polemics lead us no where," said Kiesinger. "We are convinced that the sole sovereign, the German people, wishes to live in one state. This national will controls our actions." The letter was West Germany's first proposal for high-level talks with the East and thus one of the most radical changes in German policy wrought by the ten-month-old coalition of West Germany's two dominant parties...
...Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard, letters from East Germany were not even opened. As a price for joining "the Grand Coalition," the Social Democratic Party insisted on a conciliatory foreign policy that aimed not only at working for German reunification but also at improving relations with the entire Soviet bloc. Bonn has recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph...
East Germany has also tried to block Bonn's overtures to Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East...
Died. Hans-Christoph Seebohm, 64, longtime (1949-66) West German Transport Minister; of a lung clot; in Bonn. As a public servant, Seebohm swiftly rebuilt and expanded Germany's war-ravaged railroads, autobahns, ports and waterways. As a politician, he was signally less successful. His incessant clamor for the return of the Sudeten-land-yielded to Hitler in 1938 and handed back to Czechoslovakia in 1945 -was a constant embarrassment to the Bonn government...
While all this led to complaints that Mifrifi and the pump-priming program are no longer necessary, official soothsayers at Bonn's Economic Ministry believe that the upsurge of confidence in the business community is in anticipation of the $1.3 billion injection. The program is essential, says top Economic Planner Dr. Otto Schlect, "to assure a lasting revival of business...