Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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East Germany's Walter Ulbricht has long tried to make his miserable "German Democratic Republic" seem important. With Nikita Khrushchev's approaching visit to Bonn, he is also plainly under Moscow's orders to make it look more respectable and humane. In both respects, he again failed wretchedly...
Before announcing the amnesty, however, Ulbricht had released prisoners-strictly on a business basis. Taking a leaf out of Castro's ransom book, he quietly "sold" Bonn 800 prisoners, most of them West German citizens, in exchange for several million marks worth of butter, coffee, cocoa and sugar. The transaction was accepted last summer on behalf of West Germany by Vice Chancellor Erich Mende. When word of it leaked out last week, it was branded by the West German press as a grim "traffic...
...party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary: "We have had a warning that we must produce some forceful leadership...
...could strengthen freedom and advance the peace of the world. And I pledge you here today I will go to any remote corner of the world to meet anyone, any time, to promote freedom and to promote peace." Almost as Johnson spoke, German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was saying in Bonn that he hoped the American President would travel to Germany after Nov. 3 to discuss the problems of the Western Alliance and the possibility of a multination summit meeting. It appeared that Lyndon Johnson might have just such a trip in mind...
...from Moscow, to force the West German's removal to a Russian hospital, where perhaps with truth serum he could be induced to spill his technical secrets. Or perhaps Moscow agents simply wanted Schwirkmann out of Russia for good. If so, they probably succeeded, for the word from Bonn last week was that from now on West Germany's ace bug expert would probably do his fumigating elsewhere...