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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
Personal relations between the two leaders' immediate predecessors -Georges Pompidou and Willy Brandt -were never close and sometimes downright frosty. Thus the spectacle of a genuinely close relationship between Paris and Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well...
...lawyer-businessman-diplomat, was U.S. Ambassador to West Germany from 1969 to 1972. He did an excellent job as the U.S. negotiator for the four-power Berlin agreement that guaranteed free access to the city. Rush is close to French Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues, who as ambassador to Bonn was France's representative at the Berlin talks. A longtime Nixon friend, Rush went to the White House last May as an adviser on economic policy. He will replace John N. Irwin II in Paris...
...diplomatic relations with it. The West not only denied its existence as a nation but refused to call it the German Democratic Republic-its official name -insisting that it was nothing more than an extension of the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Then five years ago, Chancellor Willy Brandt relaxed Bonn's opposition to the East Berlin regime, and the G.D.R. began its long journey in from the cold. Nation after nation accorded it formal recognition, until last week the most important holdout fell into line. In a three-minute ceremony in Washington, the U.S. became the 110th country...
balked, however, when the East Germans began interfering with West German traffic on the roadways leading to West Berlin. The harassment by the Communists was in protest against Bonn's opening a branch of the West German Federal Environmental Protection Agency in West Berlin. Only after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made it clear to the Soviets that he held them responsible for the East German action in violation of prior East-West agreements and the spirit of detente did the flow of traffic return to normal...