Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bahr, who is one of three state secretaries in the chancellery, is Brandt's Henry Kissinger. A former journalist who became Brandt's press spokesman and confidant during the Chancellor's days as mayor of West Berlin, Bahr is an originator and still a fervent advocate of the Ostpolitik. Some West German politicians regard him as naive about the Soviets. Brandt is aware of these misgivings but apparently felt that Moscow might ease its tough line a bit when confronted with Bonn's most vocal exponent of better relations...
...fervent, trustful and unusual...
...Modern Socialist parties have flourished in Western Europe since World War II, and currently hold power in Britain, Sweden, Finland and-as of last October-West Germany, Japan's chief industrial rival. Yet, aside from a ten-month fling soon after World War II, Japan's ideologically fervent Socialist Party has had all the political appeal, as one European Socialist describes it, of "a scared virgin spinster...