Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gerald M. Rosberg's article on "German Negotiations" presented such a grossly distorted view of inter-German affairs that it cannot go unanswered...
...Rosberg heaps much of the blame for the failure of past attempts at negotiating some solution to the German problem onto the West Germans...
Such charges can only be called ridiculous. To be sure, past German governments have refused to address East Germany as the "German Democratic Republic," but mostly because of the conviction that, if anything, that German Republic is not democratic. However, the new West German Government under Chancellor Kiesinger has started a campaign to cease such verbal hostilities...
There can be no doubt but that West German TV broadcasts are received in East Germany and that such broadcasts do carry a certain load of propaganda. But the West Germans are amateurs in the art of political propaganda, as anyone will ascertain who has ever had the pleasure of listening to the "Deutschlandsender" or even the "Freiheitssender 904". In any case, West Germany does not jam East German broadcasts or punish those whose TV antennas are turned to the wrong direction...
...Kiesinger government, in contrast to the policies of the Adenauer-Erhard era, are motivated by humanitarian, rather than political, considerations. The Kiesinger government does want reunification; but its proposals for negotiations are not primarily aimed at reunification. They are attempts to find ways to help the East German people...