Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isolated deep within hostile East Germany, West Berlin depends for survival upon its right of free access to West Germany. Last week that right suddenly acquired a price. In a swift move, the regime of Communist Boss Walter Urbricht forced all West German and West Berlin travelers through East Germany to buy transit visas at $2.50 a round trip. After July 1, truckers and bargers will be required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards...
...Danger of Reasonableness. On receiving the news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew...
...government. A onetime Communist who broke with his Red masters during World War II, Wehner perceived in the 1950s that the Social Democrats' Marxist shibboleths and anti-everything attitude left them locked in what he called the "30% ghetto," unable to attract a wider following among West German voters. With characteristic iron will power, he set about remolding his party into one that would appeal to all Germans...
...major advances; Socialist ministers halted West Germany's first postwar recession, initiated a bold new foreign policy toward the East Bloc, and presented the first full-scale revision of Germany's outmoded penal code in a century. Ironically, Social Democrats got no thanks from the West German voters, who seem to give the credit for the Grand Coalition's successes to the Christian Democrats. In fact, by joining the government, the Social Democrats have sacrificed the protest vote, which has ominously shifted mainly to the far-right National Democrats. In the past 15 months, the Social Democrats...
...speech with cries of "Labor traitor" and "Fascist." Erupting in fierce outbursts, Wehner has replied in kind, calling his detractors "Communists," and warning that their leftist attacks against the party's moderate policies would only encourage the growth of the new rightist extremists. "As you bellow into the German forest," he declared repeatedly, "so will it answer back...