Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hans Gresmann, of Die Zeit, an independent paper in Hamburg, asserted that only a miracle can give Willie Brandt's Social Democratic Party a ruling majority in September's contest, the fourth since the establishment of the Boun Republic in 1949. In the 1957 election Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union gained 50.2 per cent of the national vote, against 30 per cent for the Socialists...
...sign of prosperity; in fact, as Germany's only diesel-engined car, the Mercedes is favored by cab owners purely for economy. On West Berlin's city council, Adenauer's Christian Democrats are not "the opposition." as Gunther reports, but in coalition with Willy Brandt's Socialists. Benelux currencies are no more or less "interchangeable" than the rest of Europe's money. Another irritation is Gunther's constant trick of prefacing the obvious with the phrase "as everybody knows," or worse, "as is well known...
Hans Gresmann, political editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, will discuss the issues and personalities in the upcoming Brandt-Adenauer election campaign. Other speakers will be Aslam Siddiqi, Chief Information Officer of Pakistan (on the "Ideology, Security, and Development of Pakistan"), and Duraiswamy Rajendra, Deputy Comissioner of Local Government in Colombo (on "The politics of Evolution" in Ceylon...
...higher, a U.S. Air Force Convair droned up the 110-mile corridor from West Germany one day last week and landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. Into the hot sun stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, to clasp the welcoming hand of Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt. For a few hours, both could forget that they are rivals in the campaign for the fall elections. "I have come here in a moment of crisis," declared Adenauer. "I intend to show that the Federal German Government and I personally have close ties with this city." After touring...
...incident, the Bonn government nervously canceled plans to hold a symbolic meeting of the Bundesrat (upper house) in West Berlin. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer grimly called on West Berliners to "hold firm on the certain hope for reunification, peace and freedom." Needing no urging, tough West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt defied Ulbricht's warnings, addressed a mass rally at city hall to mark the eighth anniversary of the East German uprising. At dusk, thousands gathered to hear Brandt cry: "We will survive because we have good friends." All over the city, West Berliners put candles in their windows...