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...headline news from Germany early this week was the electoral triumph of Mayor Willy Brandt in beleaguered West Berlin. But the accent on Berlin in the headlines-and in the newscasts-too often emphasized the present moment and neglected the past and the future. Using Berlin, Moscow has revived one of the oldest and bitterest cold war issues -the division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging...
...appreciative audience, Berlin's hottest political phenomenon, 45-year-old Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, began a speech: "Everybody seems to be excited. And if the outside world is more excited than we are, perhaps we should at least be sympathetic...
Khrushchev's tough talk probably speeded an agreement between Christian Democrat Adenauer and Socialist Brandt. The two conferred for an hour at Adenauer's home on the line to be taken in Sunday's foreign ministers conference in Paris. Brandt emerged from the talk with the brisk anouncement...
...meeting was something of a reconciliation between the two. There had been a public dispute between Berlin and Bonn over whether Adenauer had paid enough attention to Brandt and his socialist advisers when visiting Berlin last week...
...this Brandt said: "We have no quarrel. If there was one it doesn't exist...