Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Germany's Christian Democrats are plainly getting worried about the popularity of West Berlin's fiery Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, who will be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's principal opponent in next September's national election. With his record of standing up to the Russians in Berlin, Brandt is invulnerable to the usual charge that German Socialists are "soft" on Communism. So Christian Democrats are attacking Brandt on other grounds-charging that during World War II, Willy Brandt was "anti-German," even fought against Germans in the Norwegian army...
...right-wing newspaper, the Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
West Germany's bull-necked Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (TIME cover, Dec. 19, 1960), who like Brandt is in his 40s and a likely future candidate for Chancellor on the Christian Democratic side, picked up the cudgel. "We certainly have the right to ask," said Strauss in a speech in Bavaria, "what you [Brandt] did outside Germany during those twelve years. Just as we were asked, 'What did you do inside Germany?' We know what we did." Brandt has told his own side of the story before. Violently anti-Nazi and in danger of arrest...
...fair infighter himself, Willy Brandt countered last week that Adenauer's chief aide, Dr. Hans Globke, was a high official in the Nazi bureau that revoked Brandt's German citizenship. Snapped Brandt: "It is pure insolence that the expelled citizen of 1938 should apparently apologize for this to those who in 1938 expelled...
With the whisperers' charges met, Candidate Brandt launched into a rousing political attack on Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats. It would be an uphill struggle running against wily old Chancellor Adenauer, 84. Brandt showed he was ready to take some lessons from a man almost his own age, Jack Kennedy. If elected, Brandt promised that Germany would move forward to become a "model state" but not "a sleepy welfare state." Brandt has already thrown overboard most of the Marxist trappings of his party. In foreign policy, he said, Germany must stand firmly in the Western camp...