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...majority of the members-21 out of 41-also abstained. Chancellor Willy Brandt, leader of the Social Democratic Party, grandly described the vote as opening "a new phase in the history of the Federal Republic." That may well be so, but, reports TIME'S Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, the result was a triumph for neither Brandt nor Rainer Barzel, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Union...
...bulk of the reportage for the cover naturally came from Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, whose assignment to the West German capital elates from Sept. 27, 1969. one day before the elections that brought Brandt to power. "It was another coincidence," says Gate, "that the house my wife and I finally rented turned out to be only 100 meters from Brandt's house on the Venusberg above Bonn...
Brandt makes himself remarkably accessible to the press, with frequent conferences and briefings, notes Cate, who in the past year has been granted three private interviews. For this week's story, Cate accompanied Brandt to Poland to witness the signing of the Treaty of Warsaw between West Germany and its ancient enemy. Then, over Campari and soda in Brandt's home, Cate and the Chancellor had the lengthy talks that helped the editors to assess Brandt and his initiative toward the East...
Thus in Moscow last week, the two nations, which have faced each other for 25 years across the ramparts of the cold war, made a significant step toward accommodation. Reported TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate from Bonn: "The treaty is, as Brandt says, a starting point for building a new era of trust and confidence across a divided Europe. It is also a starting point for a new kind of West Germany no longer utterly dependent upon the U.S. As an allied diplomat in Bonn put it, 'German history resumes this week...
...Axis powers died violently, scarcely 48 hours apart. Benito Mussolini perished on April 28, 1945, executed by a Communist partisan as he tried to flee Italy. Adolf Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, apparently by swallowing a cyanide capsule. On the double anniversary, TIME's Benjamin Cate in Bonn and James Bell in Rome examine the ways in which the two are remembered...