Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soldier's Duty. Thus when West Germany's new Foreign Minister Willy Brandt arrived in Paris for the NATO talks, he came as the representative of a thrusting, questioning government. De Gaulle received Brandt for an hour's chat, praised the Chancellor's address, invited Kiesinger to come to Paris next month. In an unusual display of geniality, De Gaulle authorized Brandt to tell the press that the meeting had been "très cordial...
...Cabinet members were also getting accustomed to their new ministerial offices. Socialist Leader Willy Brandt held his first meeting with aides in the Foreign Ministry, announced that he will fly to Paris this week to talk with Charles de Gaulle and arrange a meeting between the French President and Kiesinger in early January. The Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder, who served as Foreign Minister under Erhard, arrived at the Defense Ministry just after the Luftwaffe's new commander, Lieut. General Johann Steinhoff, grounded the service's 769 Starfighters following the 65th crash of the U.S.-designed fighter-bomber...
...another coalition. Besides, he believed that Germany needed a strong government to counteract the growing mood of dissatisfaction with what many people called "the mess in Bonn." Therefore, he arranged a secret meeting in Bonn with Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' deputy leader who handles party matters while Chairman Brandt attends to his mayoral duties in Berlin...
...Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige a new start. Wehner was impressed by the arguments. Brandt was also willing, because he was eager to get at least one hand on the levers of power so that he could initiate a more flexible policy toward the other Germany that surrounds his beleaguered city. To make it easy for Wehner and Brandt to sell the coalition to their party...
Fair & Predictable. Most of the excitement is bound to be on the foreign front. There will be attempts to patch up relations with Charles de Gaulle, perhaps at a cost of some of Bonn's close dependence on the U.S. Says Willy Brandt: "In Washington, France and Germany are stronger when they have good relations than when each stands alone." Still, both Kiesinger and Brandt consider themselves friends of the U.S., do not intend Germany to become a less faithful member of NATO...