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Moral Aspects. Different speakers at the U.N. warned the Soviet Union that it will have to pay a price for the kind of detente it seeks. Chancellor Willy Brandt's speech, marking West Germany's entrance into the U.N., was primarily devoted to a plea for peace, justice and an end to poverty. He pointedly spoke of "the moral aspects of international coexistence. It is peace that benefits if people and information can move as freely as possible across boundaries," he declared. British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home also echoed that theme. Gromyko's answer...
...wife Anna and his four children (ages four to eleven)-for what? That least seductive of modern quests: politics. A barely tolerable necessity if one is running for office, electioneering in Grass's case was pure altruism. He was doing it on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...regime's supporters number only in the hundreds of thousands-and these are its servants." When Willy Brandt visited East Germany in 1970 to meet with East German Premier Willi Stoph, he was, to the government's enormous chagrin, wildly cheered. He is undoubtedly the most popular man in East Germany today-possibly more popular than he is in his own country...
Gunter Grass, the German writer and active supporter of Willy Brandt, has described himself as a snail. His latest book, From the Diary of a Snail, has as its organizing motif metaphors about snails. When he is pressed by an interviewer's question Grass often answers with a disarming "ah yes but my party is a party of snails." Collecting snails--this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify...
...does not seem a likely theme for a book about campaigning with Willy Brandt and fictional events in Danzig during the Third Reich--all wrapped up under the pretext of being an explanation to the author's children. But then the author does not look like at first a likely candidate for greatness either. There is a little bit of shaggy dog about his longish brown hair and moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began...