Word: brandts
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Last week Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou met in Paris to congratulate each other on the tenth anniversary of the treaty. There were champagne toasts, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe and an exchange of kind words, along with the highest French and German decorations. At the final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust...
...thing, Pompidou's ultra-Gaullist Minister of Defense, Michel Debre, did not take part in the conversations-a clear indication that France's independent stand in military matters continues unchanged. Brandt's affirmation, moreover, that "the security interests of the European Union coincide with those of the larger Atlantic alliance" received stony silence from the French. In an equally candid preanniversary appearance on West German television, Brandt had stated bluntly. "Whatever they [the French] say, they don't want U.S. troops to pull out of Europe, at least not out of Germany." In a joint statement...
JORDAN HALL. Contemporary Music. Works of Brandt, Schonbeck, Savage, and Cowell...
...ourselves how we can stop being Germans and become Americans again. It won't be easy. This year's election campaign in the German Federal Republic is the first since World War Two in which a candidate for Chancellor appealed to national pride and honor. The candidate--Willy Brandt--felt he could make such an appeal only because he had fled the Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi resistance. Only a handful of Americans have made a commitment against their government killing equivalent to that which Brandt...
Backlog. Europe's leaders could find themselves united if they feel compelled to form a common front against the U.S. Transatlantic relations have slipped badly during Washington's years of preoccupation with Viet Nam, and when Henry Kissinger told Willy Brandt in Munich last September that 1973 was to be the "year of Europe," the Chancellor responded with a heartfelt "ah, at last." Viet Nam still intervenes, but merely postpones a growing list of issues. In the words of Political Scientist Frederick Northedge, of the School of International Relations at the London School of Economics: "There...