Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconcile many of the old antagonisms, both political and religious, that have segmented it. Its cast confirms the effort. Kurt Kiesinger, a Christian Democrat, is a onetime member of the Nazi Party?a fact on which the world's press has concentrated almost singlemindedly. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, 52, the Social Democrat who came into the government as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a wartime refugee from the Nazis and a member of the underground. Herbert Wehner, 60, the powerful Socialist theoretician who became the Cabinet minister in charge of working for German reunification, was once a Communist...
...seem intent on quite a different course: a neue Stimmungswelle?a new national mood. They want to correct the world's mistaken notion that only a fat German is a happy one, which they feel has encouraged others to ignore Germany's pressing problems and national frustrations. As Willy Brandt cries: "We are economic giants but political dwarfs...
...Bundeshaus stepped the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62. "We had an eight-hour discussion of all essential questions, which led to a convergence of views," said Kiesinger. Beside him, nodding approval and sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin's mayor and the leader of the Social Democrats. Barring a last-minute hitch, the two parties this week will begin the task of forming a new government to replace the fading minority Cabinet of Ludwig Erhard...
...Social Democrats were to meet early this week to make their decision. A good many of the Social Democrats opposed the coalition, but heavy pressure from the leadership was expected to win party approval. Under the agreement, Kurt Kiesinger would become West Germany's third postwar Chancellor, Willy Brandt would be Vice Chancellor and probably Foreign Minister, and the 20 Cabinet posts would be split between the parties. Together the two parties would control a commanding 447 members of the Bundestag. The only opposition would come from the 49 members of Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who sparked...
When it comes to foreign policy, the coalition government will almost certainly make some changes. Under Willy Brandt's influence, the government can be expected to launch new initiatives toward the East, aimed at relaxing tensions with the Soviet Union and at trying to forge new economic and cultural links with East Germany. As a concession to the influential Gaullists among the Christian Democrats, a new government will also probably attempt to repair its bridges with France, a move that would imply considerably more independence...