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Brandt's attempt to pursue Western European unity simultaneously with Eastern European rapprochement will require astute diplomacy. By personality, background and experience, however, he is uniquely equipped to deal with both East and West. According to Klaus Harpprecht, editor of the intellectual monthly Monat and a close friend, Brandt possesses "an Anglo-Saxon sense of fairness, a respect...
...Boll has another voice. "This is a sad country without sadness," he wrote in the magazine Der Monat in 1965, describing postwar Germany. He explores that paradox with Kafkaesque laughter in a story about an argument between a veteran who has lost a leg and an impatient bureaucrat who denies the soldier a higher pension. "I think that you grossly underestimate my leg," the veteran remarks. Then he wryly proceeds to relate how, if he hadn't lost his leg, he would have run away and not warned some officers of an impending attack. And that has actually cost...
...Monat family took the 11:32 p.m. Warsaw-Vienna express, sped through southern Poland and Czechoslovakia during the night, entered Austria at the tiny border town of Bernhardsthal. Since the Monats were traveling on diplomatic passports, Austrian customs of cials merely passed them by. Arriving at Vienna's East Station at 2:50 the next afternoon, the Monats had ten hours to kill before their train departed for Yugoslavia. Some time in that ten hours, they vanished...
...Warsaw, embarrassed intelligence agents concluded that Colonel Monat had turned himself over to U.S. agents in Vienna and had been shipped out secretly with his family. They glumly conceded that he might even have planned the entire operation during his 1958 tour of duty in Washington. Last week this educated guess proved correct. The story was broken from Vienna by the New York Times's Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal, who was recently expelled from Poland (TIME, Nov. 23) for "probing" too deeply into Polish affairs and was now free to report what he had not felt free to file...
While U.S. agents were keeping Defector Monat under wraps, Poland's Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka reacted swiftly by appointing tough Lieut. General Kazimierz Witaszewski deputy chief of staff in charge of army intelligence. A fiery pro-Stalinist who had supported the Russians in 1956 in their attempt to overthrow Gomulka himself, General Witaszewski might not be able to improve the quality of Polish espionage, but he could be counted upon to make the apparatus more escapeproof...