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When West German Chancellor Willy Brandt signed the Treaty of Moscow last August, he tied its ratification to a successful resolution of the problem of West Berlin, which depends on tenuous lifelines that stretch 110 miles through hostile East German territory. Last week, as the ambassadors of the Big Four completed their 18th meeting in Berlin, it was disappointingly clear that no solution was in sight...
...Brandt had hoped that the Soviets were so eager for West German trade and technology that they would be willing to guarantee the economic viability of the city and improve the lot of West Berliners by safeguarding the access routes between West Berlin and West Germany. Otherwise, Western firms will leave, and their exodus would cause an economic and psychological crisis in the isolated city...
...site of West Germany's East European refugee camp. Since the exodus began last week, more than 250 Germans have arrived from Poland-the vanguard of many more who are expected to make the trek by mid-1972. The refugees are the first tangible result of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik...
...Chancellor Willy Brandt is indeed Man of the Year [Jan. 4]. At last Germany has a government that accepts the realities of World War II. It is very important that we, the Germans, come to terms with our neighbors, especially our eastern neighbors, who were the victims of criminal Nazi terror. The organizations of refugees from the former German territories always condemn Brandt's new Ostpolitik with such ominous terms as "treacherous." I ask only, "Is it treason to accept the realities...
...Yalta-only to make things worse by allowing the Berlin Wall. The Germans have no choice but to take matters into their own hands, if there is to be any hope for a just solution between the two Germanys and to the cold war. I am glad that Willy Brandt has the courage to seek new ways of establishing peaceful coexistence with East Germany and the countries east of the Oder-Neisse line. This man and his countrymen deserve our support...