Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had feared that the Communists were starting a new round of "salami" tactics against Berlin, and last week proved him right. Fortnight ago, Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's East German regime declared a five-day period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east...
...huffing did not really hurt. West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt announced that his government would pay the air fare of any West German prevented from traveling to Berlin by train or car. and in well-publicized defiance of the East German threats, allied planes proceeded to fly in delegates to the rallies. But at check points along the land routes, many an ordinary West German was turned back, and traffic piled up for miles as East German cops carefully checked the background of the occupants of each...
Along with a new face, the Social Democrats put forward a new policy, designed to convert West German Socialism from a purely working-class party to one with an appeal for middle-class voters as well. Under pressure from Brandt-who would not take the nomination otherwise-the Socialists drastically cleaned out their ideological attic. Tossed into the dustbin with many other souvenirs of Victorian Marxism was the most cherished Socialist goal of all: nationalization. And abandoning their onetime fuzzy flirtation with the notion of neutralism, the Socialists now pledged to keep West Germany firmly in the Western alliance-including...
...foolish enough to think reunification an immediate possibility, no German politician is prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the Socialists, who angrily accused him of suffering from a "mental short circuit." Brandt's obvious campaign plan on the reunification issue: to accuse Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats of not sincerely desiring reunification and of doing too little to keep the hope of it alive in East German breasts...
Watching the Tables. But despite the new Brandt brand on the Socialist Party, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were sure to go into the election campaign running strong. Polls showed that 69% of West Germany's voters still considered Adenauer's performance as Chancellor "satisfactory," "good," or "very good," and the issue that in the past has cut most ice with West Germans politically-the Federal Republic's booming prosperity-was still in the Christian Democrats' favor. Moreover, the damaging and undignified rivalry between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "the engineer of the German...