Word: ostpolitiking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the attention has focused on Brandt's Ostpolitik. In addition to the East Berlin meetings, talks resumed in Moscow last week between Egon Bahr, Brandt's chief foreign adviser, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In Warsaw, Polish officials prepared to start a new round of discussions with a West German delegation this week. Meanwhile, Brandt was in Britain seeking support for his policy. After receiving an honorary doctorate of civil law at Oxford, Brandt said in Latin that his aim was "an equitable and lasting peace system in Europe under which individuals and nations...
Long before Chancellor Willy Brandt began bidding for closer political ties with Communist Eastern Europe, West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller was pursuing a business Ostpolitik. Unlike Brandt's diplomacy, which is still in the negotiating stage, it has already produced a solid success. Last week in the Krupp company town of Essen, Schiller and Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev toasted each other with Kupferberg Furst Bismarck champagne after signing what may be the biggest trade deal ever between the U.S.S.R. and a Western nation...
West Germany's Ostpolitik, carped Radio Moscow, "has become lost in a fog of uncertainty." As if to prove that he really is determined to establish better relations with his Communist neighbors to the east, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week dispatched his chief foreign policy adviser, Egon Bahr, on an urgent mission to Moscow. And what happened? Bahr's plane was fogbound at the Cologne/Bonn airport. After a short delay, however, Bahr finally arrived in Moscow and spent six hours conferring with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. There was no indication whether the talks, which resume...
...three state secretaries in the chancellery, is Brandt's Henry Kissinger. A former journalist who became Brandt's press spokesman and confidant during the Chancellor's days as mayor of West Berlin, Bahr is an originator and still a fervent advocate of the Ostpolitik. Some West German politicians regard him as naive about the Soviets. Brandt is aware of these misgivings but apparently felt that Moscow might ease its tough line a bit when confronted with Bonn's most vocal exponent of better relations...
While Bahr attended to Ostpolitik, Brandt spent some time on Bonn's somewhat neglected Westpolitik. In a 36-hour official visit to Paris, Brandt sought to reassure French President Georges Pompidou that Bonn's initiatives toward the East would not jeopardize West European security. Though Pompidou seemed to be satisfied with Brandt's pledges, the French in general are suspicious about German intentions. Increasingly, the French press is filled with articles reflecting fears that the Germans might link up the East bloc against West Europeans. Unlikely as that may be, Brandt nonetheless must realize that his emphasis...