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West Berlin's fighting Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt clearly found the U.S. a fine place to campaign for the chancellorship of West Germany. In a whirlwind week, he talked to a Meet the Press panel, conferred with President Kennedy, addressed the Herzl Institute, named after the founder of Zionism. Wearing a green tie, he stood for hours as a guest of honor, reviewing Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade. His message everywhere was of a Germany repentant of its past, proud of its progress, and pledged to "unbreakable friendship with the United States and the Western...
...Brandt took credit (while bowing to the Marshall Plan) for converting Berlin from "a heap of rubble into a new center of economic and cultural activity." He said Kennedy "has not the slightest intention of giving up the obligations assumed in Berlin." of trading freedom for "the false flag of a 'free city.' " Brandt dealt candidly with German fears over the impact of the forthcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel, with its reminders of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. The "terrible crimes" of the Nazi era "cannot be blotted out, not by good will...
...right-wing newspaper, the Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
West Germany's bull-necked Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (TIME cover, Dec. 19, 1960), who like Brandt is in his 40s and a likely future candidate for Chancellor on the Christian Democratic side, picked up the cudgel. "We certainly have the right to ask," said Strauss in a speech in Bavaria, "what you [Brandt] did outside Germany during those twelve years. Just as we were asked, 'What did you do inside Germany?' We know what we did." Brandt has told his own side of the story before. Violently anti-Nazi and in danger of arrest...
...fair infighter himself, Willy Brandt countered last week that Adenauer's chief aide, Dr. Hans Globke, was a high official in the Nazi bureau that revoked Brandt's German citizenship. Snapped Brandt: "It is pure insolence that the expelled citizen of 1938 should apparently apologize for this to those who in 1938 expelled...