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Since Brandt launched his Ostpolitik (policy looking to the East) in 1970, West Germany has become more closely involved with the U.S.S.R. Says Countess Marion Donhoff, publisher of the liberal Hamburg weekly Die Zeit: "We once again assumed our traditional place in the center of Europe. As a result, Bonn must to a certain extent take into account the reactions of the East...
...tongues. She shakes hands firmly, rather like a man, and is thrifty with her smiles. She is a connoisseur of fine wines and an excellent horsewoman. She has also been compared, with complimentary intent, to Walter Lippmann; and the comparison is at least vocationally just. For Dr. Marion Grafin Donhoff has one of West Germany's most respected bylines...
...Ease. West Germans from Chancellor Adenauer on down have been listening attentively if warily to Grafin Donhoff for 17 years. They know by now that as foreign editor of Die Zeit, a small, opinionated weekly published in Hamburg, she will seldom say any thing to give them ease. After the war ended, for example, most Germans felt that the less said about their Nazi past the better. But Die Zeit and die Grafin boldly demanded that all German war criminals be punished for their crimes. After the Chancellor appointed one Theodor Oberlander to his Cabinet, Die Zeit raised the issue...
Kindred Spirit. There has never been any compromise in Grafin Donhoff's life. When World War II engulfed the family castle, Friedrichstein, in East Prussia, its chatelaine joined the German underground, made regular weekly clandestine trips to Berlin, and played a role in many an assassination plot against Hitler. At war's end, after the partition of Germany, the Grafin traveled to Hamburg on horseback, a 500-mile journey that took her two months...
...boards of big industrial companies are liberally studded with noble names. The names are particularly in demand as public relations men. "I do like snobs," exclaims one princely P.R. man. "They are all so kind to one!" Two of West Germany's ablest journalists are titled: Countess Marion Donhoff, political editor of Hamburg's weekly Die Zeit, and Count Hans Werner Finck von Finckenstein, a correspondent for Die Welt. Says one corporate count: "All you need to get ahead in industry is reasonably good looks, self-assurance and organizational talent. This the nobility had, and now the young...
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