Word: brandts
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Worse yet, Adenauer is deeply suspicious that the U.S. and Britain are resigned to accepting eventual East German control of the land routes to West Berlin. Fortnight ago, acting with West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, Adenauer presented Western summit planners with a memorandum declaring that West Berlin is legally a state of the West German Federal Republic. The implication: West Germany has the right to veto any summit decision on Berlin that the Germans find unacceptable. But the Anglo-American view of Berlin's status is that their own rights as World War II victors constitute...
...Willy Brandt is more tactful, but just as insistent, in pressing West Germany's claim. Says he: "The word 'veto' overplays the whole thing. West Germany is part of the Western community. It is normal for the Western powers not to make a decision about a German city without the approval of the German government. If they did otherwise, there would be very deplorable consequences...