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Behind Europe's hopeful new mood is West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who took office last month. As Foreign Minister in the old Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, Brandt had argued since 1966 that West Germany should attempt to normalize its relations with Iron Curtain nations. As Chancellor, he can now press his ideas even more vigorously than before. He is eager to increase trade, travel and communication agreements and establish normal diplomatic relations with Eastern European governments, which Bonn snubbed for years. Moreover, as proof of his realistic approach, he is believed ready to renounce Germany...
...counting on as a supplier of sorely needed technology. Moreover, Moscow has been holding talks with West Germany since 1966 about a mutual agreement renouncing the use of force-a deal that Poland fears might not provide adequate security for its own borders. Thus, when Russia finally gave permission last March for its Warsaw Pact allies to begin negotiating their own bilateral agreements with Bonn, Poland decided to try and make up for lost time...
...have others in the Eastern Bloc been idle. Hungary last month agreed to upgrade its trade representative with Bonn to a level just short of consular status. The Rumanians, who established full diplomatic relations with Bonn in 1967, are negotiating for another long-term trade agreement...
Seated in a Baroque armchair in his elegant office in Palais Schaumburg, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week described his vision of a "new Germany" in an interview with Benjamin Gate, TIME's Bureau Chief in Bonn. The Chancellor spoke in fluent hut slightly stiff English, smoking cigarettes and rolling wooden matches between his fingers while he pondered his answers...
...under the shadow of a Soviet campaign to discredit him. Though his major works (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) are widely read abroad, they have never been published in Russia. Nor have any of his short stories appeared in the Soviet Union during the past three years. Last week the Soviets moved to impose on him the sentence that a writer dreads most: silence...