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Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the Soviet bloc to recognize the East German puppet regime. After nearly a week of dithering, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano concluded that, whatever the cost, he could not back down on a public and frequently repeated threat. At week's end Brentano called in the Yugoslav ambassador and handed him his walking papers...
Diplomatic Opportunity. In West Germany, where recovery of the "eastern territories" is supposedly still a hot emotional issue, Tito's statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed...
...record. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano added West Germany's signature to the NATO Council's final communique: "It is the availability of the most modern weapons of defense which will discourage attempts to launch any . . . attack on the alliance...
...from a Bundestag foreign-policy debate widely touted and televised as a keynote for the coming election campaign. The ruling Christian Democrats set out to show how wide the gap was between the government's foreign policy and the "reckless" ideas of the Socialists. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano led off confidently...
...British taxpayer, Macmillan made clear, was fed up with Germany's letting Britain carry Germany's defenses. Since Germany had to confess that it could supply only 360,000 German troops instead of the 500,000 it had promised, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano agreed to make up the difference by continuing to pay British support costs...