Word: brandts
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...nation in 1949, they know they can hope to beat Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats only by dropping the talk of class consciousness, and by plugging policies that were anathema to the Socialists only a few years ago. Proclaimed West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt in his Cologne speech: "We say that the Federal Republic must cultivate and develop the relationship of trust with the United States." From SPD Economic Pundit Heinrich Deist there was no kind word for nationalization of industry; instead, he urged free competition, mildly suggested that capitalism be improved by better anti...
...sense, domination by default. Re-elected Socialist Chairman Erich Ollenhauer is a lovable but ineffectual Teddy bear of a party leader; West Berlin's good-looking Mayor Brandt is the Socialists' candidate for Chancellor, but he lacks grass-roots allegiances. Wehner's orders are what counts...
...Accolades for A.D.A., on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, were received from Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...times of crisis, West Germans still rely on indestructible Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. At the height of the Berlin trouble last fall, 32% told public opinion pollsters that they wanted him in charge; Berlin's tough Mayor Willy Brandt was right behind him with 31%, while popular Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard carried only 6%. Since then, the picture changed, partly because things looked quieter at Berlin-at least for a while. In the latest poll. Erhard-whom der Alte usually treats like an office boy-is now the first choice for Chancellor, with 28%, while Adenauer is down...
...signs, Brandt maintained, show-that the shock and dismay caused by the Wall had begun to wear off. West Berlin's industrial production, said Brandt, is higher than it was a year ago, incoming orders exceed those of October 1960, and employment is on the rise; tax revenues are increasing steadily and savings accounts are satisfactory. After West Berlin's 1958 crisis, Brandt continued, it took seven months before bank deposits returned to normal; today deposits are bouncing back far faster. Some of the signs cited by Brandt may be the result of artificial respiration. More important...