Word: brandts
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Last week, opening his campaign to become West Germany's next Chancellor, West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, 46, decided to meet some ugly whispers head on. Enemies were saying he was born a bastard and, during World War II, "turned his back on Germany" to become "one of the enemy." To a Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work...
...Brandt went on: "Least of all do I need to justify the fact that, even in my youth, I was a consistent enemy of the [Nazi] regime that brought us terror and war and meant the worst national betrayal." In his twelve-year Scandinavian exile, he said, he had won "the knowledge of how a state based on law can be made into a true home for the people...
...chief of state would feel really satisfied about Kennedy himself until he saw him across a conference table. Adenauer and West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who will probably face each other in Germany's own election next year, let it be known that they just happened to be planning trips to the U.S. shortly after inauguration. Other leaders, equally curious, would probably soon be in line. Kennedy himself has indicated that he plans a minimum of gallivanting around abroad...
Drift to Indecision. Unsure of his allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports...
...Berlin there was gloom over the drift of events. Last week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...