Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significance from the fact that the state administration, like the federal government in Bonn, is an uneasy coalition between the Christian Democratic Union and the minority Free Democrats. As a result, the two chief rivals, Ludwig Erhard's C.D.U., running scared after 16 years in power, and Willy Brandt's Socialist Party (S.P.D.), riding high in the opinion polls, poured their heaviest artillery into the Saar...
...reason for the delay is rooted in still more ancient history. The Christian Democrats have proposed emergency legislation three times in the past eleven years, but since it would amount to a constitutional revision, they need a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag to enact it. Willy Brandt's Social Democrats have always opposed the bills, partly because they disagreed with various clauses, but mainly because of the implacable opposition of the trade unions to the whole idea. Union leaders are still haunted by memories of 1933, when Adolf Hitler, upon the famous pretext of the Reichstag fire, used...
...French diplomat. This new nationalism shows none of the ugly, fanatical marks of the Nazi era. So far, at least, it consists of an increased self-confidence and a growing concern with national purpose. Unsettling though it may be for a watching world, this awakening was, as Willy Brandt said not long ago, "as inevitable as the sunrise. No people can live without pride...
Mayor Willy Brandt (1962) and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (1964) have been used up, so the most likely German-of-the-year is Franz Josef Strauss, former Minister of Defense. Herr Strauss' citation will read: "He has made the Wall of Shame almost as big a drawing card as the Bridge of Sighs...
...agree. Franco "may never be considered respectable enough in the Western community" [April 23]-of Tito, Brandt, Nenni, Spaak, Attlee, Mendes-France...