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...between the U.S. and Moscow; the fear is of a deal with Moscow that would reduce West Berlin's ties to West Germany, and permanently recognize Red rule in East Germany. With this in mind, so stalwart a supporter of the West as former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano (now Christian Democratic leader in Parliament) recently reminded the Allies sharply that "it is intolerable to offer additional concessions. The aim of talks must be to convince the Soviet Union that the German people have an ineradicable right to self-determination...
...Free Democrats' nationalistic notions were recognized in the contract, such as support for an ''active'' policy by which Bonn would deal directly with Eastern European nations, notably Czechoslovakia and Poland. The more significant development was the resignation of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, whose scalp was offered by Adenauer as a sop to the Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom. His successor, sharp-tongued...
...major domestic and foreign-policy decisions will have to be cleared in advance through a "coalition committee." At week's end. the F.D.P. voted to accept the deal on one added condition that the C.D.U. will consider this week. The condition: that Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano be replaced, because the F.D.P. thinks he would not take a hard enough line in any East-West negotiations over Berlin...
West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano briskly set the record straight: "It was nothing but a joint aggression pact that brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to deceive each other. I am perfectly willing to send Herr Khrushchev a map showing the new frontier [dividing Poland] between Germany and the Soviet Union which bears the signatures of Stalin and Ribbentrop...
...Heidelberg reigned supreme throughout Germany. In philosophy, it boasted Hegel and later Karl Jaspers. In literature, it was a vibrant center of Germany's early 19th century Romantics (Brentano, Eichendorff, Holderlin). In natural sciences, it abounded with men like Bunsen and Kirchhoff, who in 1860 demonstrated spectrum analysis, and Helmholtz, one of the founders of the law of the conservation of energy. In medicine, it was a world-famed mecca, and over the years its professors won seven Nobel Prizes...