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Reflecting a major West German concern, Bonn's General-Anzeiger headlined: COMMUNIST PARTICIPATION UNNECESSARY. Reagan Administration officials privately expressed similar satisfaction. Said one U.S. official: "Mitterrand with a mandate has to be easier to deal with than a Mitterrand constantly forced to protect his left flank...
...cautious approach to foreign policy during its first weeks in office?and with good reason. The new government faced the task of allaying fears in friendly capitals that abrupt change was in the offing. Shortly after Mitterrand's inauguration last month, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson set off for Bonn for meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. His mission: to reassure France's foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from the Elysée. Cheysson next...
...aggressor planned a hostile act in the immediate future. In 1967, for example, the U.N. Security Council did not condemn Israel for its Six-Day War attack on Egypt, since there was evidence of Egypt's aggressive intentions. Says Christian Tomuschat, professor of international law at the University of Bonn: "It always comes down to the same question: Was there a real and imminent danger that would have justified a preventive strike...
Mann would have withheld his cool wrath from the Nazis in his letter to the University of Bonn. There would have been no greeting from Emerson to Whitman "at the beginning of a great career"no Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot ("my best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be"). Had St. Paul decided to speak instead of write, the New Testament would have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...
Mitterrand began his first full week in the office he had pursued for 16 years by playing host to one of ex-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's closest political allies: West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Despite initial fears that the Paris-Bonn axis would be weakened by the departure of cher Valery, Mitterrand appeared to get along fine with his fellow socialist from West Germany. The two leaders agreed to continue their joint efforts to shore up the franc. Mitterrand pledged to continue the Giscard-Schmidt policy of simultaneously beefing up European missile capacity while seeking arms...