Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right v. Right. Bonn's policy, from the early days of Konrad Adenauer through the present regime of Ludwig Erhard, has never publicly changed. Official West German maps label Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia Zurzeit unter Polnischer Verwaltung (temporarily under Polish administration), and Germans still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
Some take heart from the considerable increase in West German trade with the East, arguing that the way to bring the Berlin Wall tumbling down and to move toward reunification is to revitalize the incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled...
Many West Germans see in the Oder-Neisse territories a high card that can be played in a deal with the Reds for reunification. The Bonn government, including Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, would like to use them as a bargaining lever for establishment of an all-German government and the convening of a peace conference. But the Poles-who have moved 8,500,000 migrants of their own into the lost territories-are equally adamant that formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse boundary must precede any settlement of the German question...
...glut has dropped most European steel prices toward their lowest level in ten years, yet the cost of production keeps rising. West German plants are forced by Bonn to use uneconomical coal from the Ruhr instead of cheaper U.S. imports; the difference causes a pricing disadvantage of up to $5 a ton in competition with incoming Dutch and Italian steel. Steel imports, as one result, have climbed from 15% of German sales to 25% in the past five years. French steelmakers must import 25% of their coke, pay a 15% to 20% duty...
...batteries, worked. First call was to Tokyo, where, with a 14-hour time lead, the week was well under way. Tokyo staffers copied the telephone queries for the bureau as well as those for relay to Hong Kong, Manila and other Far Eastern news centers. Calls to Paris, Bonn and London followed...