Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...
...establishment of diplomatic relations with East bloc nations, all-out efforts for a detente with the Soviet Union with no prior conditions, and immediate economic grants to East Germany in order to try and ease the dreary have-not plight of that area's 17 million inhabitants. Says Brandt: "We should not be hypnotized by legalistic formulas...
...beneficiaries in the crisis were, of course, the Socialists. Party Leader Willy Brandt chose to play a cautious game. Since the national polls showed the Socialists comfortably ahead, Brandt reckoned that it would be wiser to wait until elections and take a chance on gaining power as a majority government rather than to link up now with either the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats...
...political power that in U.S. terms would equal California's and New York's combined. Heavily Catholic, the region has traditionally given wide majorities to Erhard's Christian Democratic Union. Hence the surprise last week when, in the state's first election since 1962, Willy Brandt's Social Democrats grabbed 49.5% of the popular vote and 99 seats to the C.D.U.'s 86. The C.D.U.'s ally and coalition partner, t he Free Democratic Party, won 15 seats-enough to allow the C.D.U.-F.D.P. coalition to continue with a bare two-vote majority...
Faced with such impossible demands, the Social Democrats' Willy Brandt could only abandon the whole project and denounce Norden's performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...