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...Bonn last week came news that surprised nobody: the nomination of West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, 46. as the Social Democratic candidate for Chancellor in next year's West German elections. Hungry for office-they have not won a single federal election since the West German Republic was established in 1949-the Socialists had turned, logically enough, to the man whom a recent public-opinion poll rated even more popular with West Germans of voting age than 84-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer himself...
Along with a new face, the Social Democrats put forward a new policy, designed to convert West German Socialism from a purely working-class party to one with an appeal for middle-class voters as well. Under pressure from Brandt-who would not take the nomination otherwise-the Socialists drastically cleaned out their ideological attic. Tossed into the dustbin with many other souvenirs of Victorian Marxism was the most cherished Socialist goal of all: nationalization. And abandoning their onetime fuzzy flirtation with the notion of neutralism, the Socialists now pledged to keep West Germany firmly in the Western alliance-including...
...foolish enough to think reunification an immediate possibility, no German politician is prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the Socialists, who angrily accused him of suffering from a "mental short circuit." Brandt's obvious campaign plan on the reunification issue: to accuse Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats of not sincerely desiring reunification and of doing too little to keep the hope of it alive in East German breasts...
...position, the Socialist position is that the European pact system and NATO must serve as a basis for any foreign-policy and reunification efforts." Last week the party's seven-man electoral strategy committee, further revising the party's face, picked Berlin's vigorous Mayor Willy Brandt, 46, as the party's candidate for chancellor...
...Kennedy landslide. "Kennedy did not come to Los Angeles to negotiate the nomination, but merely to pick up the loving cup he had won." Said Syndicated Columnist Marquis Childs: "A new kind of party is coming into being." Or as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond P. Brandt put it, "the Massachusetts Senator has virtually assured himself [of victory] over the old-line professional politicians." All in all, concluded Lippmann, the Democrats "feel, perhaps rightly, that they are riding the wave of the future...