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...along with this maneuver. At local party meetings, they presented a battery of motions opposing the Doppelbeschluss. The left's main hope is pinned on a proposal for a total freeze on all new NATO and Warsaw Pact intermediate-range missiles until the Geneva negotiations end. Says Erhard Eppler, a leader of the peace movement and one of Schmidt's main critics within the S.P.D.: "The two-track decision has one major fault. It is meant to pressure the Soviets, but not the Americans...
...Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between the way America and Europe view the world . . . Europeans have a better understanding of the complexities of current world difficulties than the United States." Says West Germany's Social Democratic Party leader, Erhard Eppler: "There is the feeling that the U.S. is a greater menace to peace and stability in Europe than the Soviet Union.1...
...West Germany, the key country in the antinuclear movement, the activists tended to approve of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's initial lukewarm reaction to Jaruzelski's crackdown. Typical was the attitude of Erhard Eppler, a member of the national executive committee of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and a foe of the nuclear arms race. "For the most part, the peace movement was just as disgusted with what happened in Poland as anyone else," Eppler told TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers. "The events were a shock, but the shock was overshadowed by the very emotional reaction...
...against his government and his policies. Schmidt was particularly incensed by the action of 58 members of parliament belonging to his own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) who signed a declaration of support for the rally. Galling too was the fact that one of the principal speakers at the rally, Erhard Eppler, is a member of the S.P.D.'s national executive committee and a former member of the Cabinet. Said Schmidt: "The demonstrators are blind to the huge Soviet [arms] buildup. They make no substantial contribution to securing peace on the basis of military balance. Instead, they weaken the West...
...psychiatry, religion and philosophy lies the synthesis of a social ethic for the next generations. That "new" thought is but dimly seen, barely revealed even to the alchemists who litter lecture halls and speaker's platforms with the bird-droppings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the offal of Werner Erhard...