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...arrangement with Eastern Europe and proposed an economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized" in a reunified Germany. His speech was strictly a personal expression, and had not been officially cleared with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; thus it was both a trial balloon and the subject of domestic controversy in Bonn (see below...
...known that they were re-examining the matter. For while Barzel is relatively unknown in the U.S., he is deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in West Germany, majority leader in the Bundestag, and widely considered one of the most likely candidates to succeed Chancellor Ludwig Erhard some...
Nine months ago, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt looked like a political washout. He had twice led his Social Democratic Party to defeat in national elections, and so severe was his drubbing at the hands of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard last year that Brandt declared bitterly that he would never again campaign for the chancellorship. Privately relieved, the Social Democrats began looking around for a successor...
...C.D.U. programs espouse philosophically. But there is venom aplenty-directed mainly at the British Labor government of Clement Attlee (which Adenauer accuses of unfairly aiding his German Socialist opposition in the immediate postwar years) and at Socialist Party Leader Schumacher. Adenauer scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece...
...June Visit. Erhard's government, though skeptical of Ulbricht's motives, cannot afford to oppose the new mood. Last week, in league with the Social Democrats, it was drafting legislation granting special immunity to visiting East Germans who might come on the speakers' exchange. The East German response was to call for a postponement of the talks until July, but that may not mean the end of the affair. Observers believe that the Kremlin favors discussions and no doubt will tell the East Germans more or less what it wants them to say. But the Kremlin itself...