Word: jedrychowski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in Warsaw, in a dramatic step toward conciliation, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski and his West German counterpart, Walter Scheel, initialed a treaty designed to restore normal relations between the two countries and capped it with a champagne toast. The treaty, said Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn, would be "a liberating step toward a better Europe-a Europe in which borders no longer divide. That is what the youth of our countries expect and we no longer want to burden them with the past. Instead, we want to give them a new beginning...
...Polish demand that the Oder-Neisse boundary, which ceded one-fourth of prewar Germany to Poland, should be recognized as final (see story, page 35). Also unresolved is the question of the ethnic Germans, believed to number 100,000, who still live in Poland. Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski insists that only those Germans with direct family ties in West Germany be permitted to leave, if they wish to. Scheel would like a broader definition of who is allowed to go. He wants the first trainloads leaving the very day the treaty is signed...
...military or political threat. Though Soviet intervention may seem remote, Bonn would rest more easily if the Russians disclaimed those rights. In Warsaw, Brandt hopes to lay the foundation for the future establishment of full diplomatic recognition and stronger cultural and economic ties. But as Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski told Tinnin, Poland insists on a binding settlement of the Oder-Neisse question before the other issues can be worked out. In East Germany, Brandt seeks the establishment of more humane and sensible relations between the two halves of Germany...