Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October speech, with its enunciation of his Ostpolitik, had touched off a flurry of diplomatic activity between Bonn and its Communist neighbors. Since then, Brandt had said little. So this time he felt it necessary to deal exclusively with foreign policy, for he is determined to break the enduring impasse in Central Europe. Most of the speech was directed at East Germany's spade-bearded Boss Walter Ulbricht, who fears that any improvement in Bonn's relations with Warsaw and Moscow will undermine his own bargaining position with West Germany. Last month Ulbricht sent Brandt a proposed treaty...
...example, and economic cooperation-that might help bring the two Germanys a bit closer. He promised to write a letter to East German Premier Willi Stoph in which he would make a formal proposal. Declared Brandt: "There must be, there can be and there will be negotiations between Bonn and East Berlin." At the same time, he blamed the East Germans for continuing tension between the two parts of Germany. Ulbricht and his cohorts, said Brandt, are "dogmatists and left-wing reactionaries whose own power is more important to them than peace among all the people of Europe...
...week that they would welcome American attendance. Previously, they had been lukewarm toward the idea. It is too early to tell, however, whether the Soviets, who have recently stiffened their attitude toward Brandt, want the security conference badly enough to pressure Ulbricht into even a semblance of cooperation with Bonn...
Suspected Plot. Some Western diplomats suspect that the Communists are flooding Bonn with requests for talks in hopes of overwhelming, and possibly outsmarting, weary West German negotiators. The only trouble with the hypothesis is that the Soviet Union is working its own top men pretty hard as well...
Last month, for example, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko personally received Bonn's ambassador in Moscow for preliminary talks about full-scale negotiations. Many diplomats took Gromyko's presence to mean that the Kremlin had suddenly decided to put a new emphasis on relations with West Germany. That may yet prove to be the case, but it is also true that Gromyko was the only seasoned senior negotiator available in Moscow at the time. First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who ordinarily handles Western European affairs, was preoccupied with negotiations with Peking, where he returned last week after...