Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this belief, while steadfastly maintained in public, is becoming increasingly hollow. Far more realistic than last week's mob scene was a rare joint appearance by Christian Democrat Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, both of whom pleaded for reconciliation with Poland. The emotions that can still be stirred up by talk about the "lost homelands" in the East sometimes obscure a major political and social development in West Germany: the remarkably successful integration into the nation's life of 13 million refugees, one-quarter of the population...
Along with the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.N. Secretary-General, Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin and this year's Pollak Lecturer, was also honored with a Doctorate of Laws...
...Brandt's degree came as no surprise after his October lectures on "The Ordeal of Coexistence." In today's ceremony Pusey appropriately called him "the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom...
...Chancellor. Accordingly, Kennedy's host in West Germany will be a lame duck, and Kennedy will have the sticky problem of treating with Erhard while Adenauer, who openly dislikes Erhard, is still in charge. Adenauer decided to accompany Kennedy to West Berlin, thereby peeving Social Democratic Mayor Willy Brandt. The Russians announced that they will consider an Adenauer visit to Berlin "provocative...
Despite Adenauer's towering contempt for him. "Uncle Ludwig" is by far the most popular politician in the country; a recent public-opinion poll showed that he is regarded by 25% of the voters as the best man to succeed Adenauer, whereas Socialist Leader Willy Brandt is favored by only 12%. But with federal elections only two years away, 32% of those polled now look on the Socialists as the "most sympathetic party," while only 30% so regard the C.D.U. A three-man C.D.U. committee chosen to name the next Chancellor appears convinced that only Erhard can reverse...