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Tough & Unbending. Under the Christian Democratic governments of Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard, letters from East Germany were not even opened. As a price for joining "the Grand Coalition," the Social Democratic Party insisted on a conciliatory foreign policy that aimed not only at working for German reunification but also at improving relations with the entire Soviet bloc. Bonn has recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German...
...Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East Germany is also trying to transform Luther into a precursor of Communism...
...neutrality of Sweden in war is much simpler to comprehend than the delicate balancing act that it practices in world literature. The Swedish Academy hands out the Nobel Prize with a fine impartiality. This year a Frenchman, another time a German. Now a Russian of whom even Stalin could approve, then a Russian who cannot even show up to accept the award. And there are the obscure choices-the Icelandic novelist or the Italian poet, each known to only a handful even in his own country...
...most readers knew, S. Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs might have been creatures of the Nobel committee's imagination. Placing Agnon was easier: he turned out to be Israel's top novelist. But Nelly Sachs was a poser: A Jewish woman poet of 75 who wrote in German and lived (as she still does) in Sweden. Had the academy simply decided that it was the turn of Jewish writers? Did it already have in the wings an unsung Arab for the next time around...
This volume of selected poems, published in English and German text, takes its title from the first...