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Thus Willy Brandt's role in 1970 had great significance for America...
...Wall was a blatant violation of Big Four understandings about free movement throughout the city, but the Western allies waited a full 48 hours before lodging an ineffectual protest with the Soviets. "Kennedy cooked our goose," said Brandt, and he fired off a blistering reproach to the President. (He later mellowed toward Kennedy, however, after the young President delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin in 1963.) It was during the Berlin Wall period that Brandt decided that if anything was to be done to ease
...Communist nations. It is a daring vision, full of opportunity and danger, rekindling the dreams of unity that have inspired Europeans from Charlemagne to Napoleon. It may not be realized for a long time, if ever. But by holding it up as a goal for all Europeans, Willy Brandt emerged as 1970'sMan of the Year...
...Brandt rejects accusations that he has given concessions without gaining anything in return. "We are losing nothing with this treaty that has not been gambled away long ago," he told West Germans in a television address from Moscow at the signing in August. As a longtime student of Communism, Brandt argues that both Moscow and Warsaw have, in fact, given up a very great deal in signing renunciation-of-force agreements with West Germany. By so doing, the Communists tacitly acknowledged that Bonn is a peaceful partner. For a quarter of a century, the Communists had been blaming the "revenge...
Accordingly, Brandt told Gate, "the Russians have had to pay a price that for them is rather high. They have had, more or less, to take out of play the anti-German card. Up until now, the anti-German card was always the one they could play in situations where it was difficult for the East bloc countries to agree on something...