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...Treaty of Moscow changes all that. It recognizes existing postwar boundaries, including the Oder-Neisse Line, which forms Poland's western frontier, and brings an end to German claims on territory lost...
Brandt's Grand Design. For West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who flies to Moscow this week for the formal signing, the treaty marks the first crucial success of his Ostpolitik. That is his grand design, which envisions a united Western Europe living in peace with its neighbors to the east...
...concerning Berlin. But later, Gromyko promised Scheel privately that, once the renunciation-of-force treaty was signed, the Soviets would cooperate with the three Western Allies to improve the position of West Berlin. The Bonn delegation accordingly proceeded with the initialing of the treaty, but insisted that the West German government would not offer the document to the Bundestag for final ratification until progress on the Berlin question has taken place...
...first letter, from Bonn to Moscow, will state that German aspirations toward eventual peaceful reunification are not contradictory to the spirit or intent of the new treaty. The second, from Bonn to the Allies, which the Soviets will formally acknowledge, will declare that the Bonn-Moscow agreement does not prejudice Allied rights in Germany, including Berlin, nor does it preclude an eventual peace treaty that could allow a reunification of East and West Germany. On both points, the Soviets acceded to Bonn's demands...
Security Conference. In many ways, the key ingredient of the Treaty of Moscow is what it may do for Europe tomorrow. Writes TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate: "The Bonn-Moscow accord certainly will lead to similar treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, and to a third German summit with Walter Ulbricht's East German regime. Western Europe, which has leaned so heavily in America's direction for 25 years, will begin to right itself and gradually pull away from America's orbit. Because of the expected expansion of the Common Market, the dream that Charles de Gaulle so cherished...