Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the past 150 years. The banquet had a double purpose: to celebrate the return of the palace, seized by the French at the end of World War II, and to set the mood for this week's visit by Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt. Of such importance was the occasion, in fact, that West German President Heinrich Lübke had flown in from Bonn to act as De Gaulle's host...
...Many? The dispatch reported that Willy Brandt had just told a rally of his Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been...
Even when a tape recording of the speech proved that Brandt had not insulted De Gaulle, De Gaulle refused to listen, using the episode to embarrass the Germans and crack a whip over their heads. To show the Germans what he thought of them, he summarily canceled luncheon invitations to two visiting Bonn Cabinet ministers, treated President Lübke with frosty politeness and left hanging the threat of a formal French protest. It was not until later in the week, after he had extracted what he could from the situation, that De Gaulle allowed his information minister to announce...
...Bonn, partly because Erhard mistrusted espionage, and partly because of disclosures that two of Gehlen's aides had been double agents in Soviet employ. But Gehlen recovered a measure of his former influence under the Grand Coalition, even though he warned Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt that their diplomatic initiatives toward Eastern Europe might provoke the Soviets into some kind of serious political retaliation...
Bamburak completed a hat trick and Dave Kartio and Gary Brandt put in two goals apiece for the fast-skating Sioux. Curran made 27 saves, as did Direcks...