Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abrasimov's warning underlined the dilemma into which the Berlin affair has plunged the Osi-politik of the Grand Coalition. When he started the new policy 18 months ago, Brandt sought to establish diplomatic relations with all 'Eastern European countries except East Germany. Under pressure from Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and from moderates in his own Socialist party, Brandt retained the Federal Republic's old insistence that it, and not Ulbricht's regime, is the legitimate representative of all Germans, including those in East Germany...
...summoning Brandt to East Berlin, the Soviets served notice that they will use their influence to frustrate Bonn's efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
Facing such Soviet intransigence, many Socialists, especially those near Brandt, would like to respond to Ulbricht's travel restrictions by some daring move, such as abolishing the need for visas for other East bloc visitors to West Germany, in order to illustrate how anachronistic Ulbricht's restrictions are. In today's relaxing Europe, they also favor diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn...
...Bundestag debate, the Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists decided to take a few short-range measures to bolster Berlin somewhat, to encourage investment in the city and arrange for more air travel to and from it. Meanwhile, West Germany's NATO allies agreed to ban many East German businessmen and officials from their countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting Western Europe. The steps were mild enough, but they were all the West seemed prepared to do for now to counter the new threat to the continued well-being...
...Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reflecting on the U.S.'s determined response in 1961 to Khrushchev's threats to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, cautioned his aides against any hasty action. Said Rusk: "We mobilized troops, we spent $6 billion, and when we looked around, nobody was there...