Word: brandts
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West Germany's Social Democratic Party, regroomed in the dashing image of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, is already working hard to beat out Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats in next fall's national election. The Socialists' first big test of strength came last week in communal elections involving 40% of the West German electorate. The results were hardly encouraging...
West Berlin's fighting Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt clearly found the U.S. a fine place to campaign for the chancellorship of West Germany. In a whirlwind week, he talked to a Meet the Press panel, conferred with President Kennedy, addressed the Herzl Institute, named after the founder of Zionism. Wearing a green tie, he stood for hours as a guest of honor, reviewing Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade. His message everywhere was of a Germany repentant of its past, proud of its progress, and pledged to "unbreakable friendship with the United States and the Western...
...Brandt took credit (while bowing to the Marshall Plan) for converting Berlin from "a heap of rubble into a new center of economic and cultural activity." He said Kennedy "has not the slightest intention of giving up the obligations assumed in Berlin." of trading freedom for "the false flag of a 'free city.' " Brandt dealt candidly with German fears over the impact of the forthcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel, with its reminders of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. The "terrible crimes" of the Nazi era "cannot be blotted out, not by good will...
...think of the partitioning of Germany as just punishment for moral and political guilt," when in fact a divided Germany is "a malignancy in the heart of Europe." The 17 million East Germans cannot "be thrown on the rubbish heap of pensable" history." and Brandt looked called forward NATO to "indis some sort of "political Atlantic community." And he urged that the West "abandon the fear that Communists are supermen and instead recognize that they are a calculable and thus defeatable entity." Willy Brandt. 47, easily convinced the U.S. that he was a stout and able friend...
...Brandt: "I'm afraid that a few of us are hams." A star performer is Sarah McClendon, who represents a group of small dailies from Texas to New Hampshire, and whose convoluted questions seldom fail to draw laughs. Asked she last week: "Mr. President, sir. What do you think of the Air Force and other branches of Government organizing these sidebar corporations and using taxpayers' money to circumvent the civil service and pay large scientists and others? Isn't this sort of incongruous with the call for volunteers for your Peace Corps?" Understandably, Kennedy's answer...