Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detente in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West is the innovative Ostpolitik pursued by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Until recently, the success of Brandt's flexible policy of accord with the Soviet bloc was virtually taken for granted in the chanceries of Europe. No longer. Today there is a very real danger that more than two years of diplomatic labors could be undone, possibly even drowning Richard Nixon's hoped-for "era of negotiation" in a renewed round of cold war invective. Improbable as it might seem-and to the distress of almost everyone concerned...
...central pieces are the 1970 treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and ruled out the use of force in any future disputes between West Germany, Poland and Russia. Brandt made their ratification by the Bundestag contingent upon the conclusion of a satisfactory agreement improving the status of West Berlin...
...Willy Brandt will deliver a major address on European-American relations at a special convocation at Harvard on June 5, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the Marshall Plan...
...Brandt received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard in 1963, at which time he was Governing Mayor of Berlin...
...many Western Europeans maintain exactly the opposite. As one West German editorial put it: "In this era of detente, it is all the more important that the voice of free opinion is not silenced." Even though his Ostpolitik seeks better relations with the Communist countries, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt obviously agrees. He has consistently rejected Polish and Soviet suggestions that the stations' licenses to operate from West German territory be withdrawn...