Word: ostpolitiking
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Such bickering has exacerbated the strained relations between Pompidou and Brandt. It is an open secret in Paris that Pompidou distrusts Brandt's government. He worries that it is more concerned with its Ostpolitik policy of normalizing relations with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe than with solving the problems of Western Europe. A Pompidou aide muses: "The EEC is confining for Germany. What would be the German reaction in five years if the Soviets offered them reunification?" The French answer their own question. The Germans "would pack up their dossier and return to Bonn," drop...
...Ulbricht's crusty cold war stance against détente and West Germany's Ostpolitik lost him some of Moscow's backing. He found himself increasingly isolated and plagued by failing health. Two years ago he relinquished his post as party First Secretary, naming his longtime protégé Erich Honecker as his successor. Ulbricht retained the largely ceremonial office of Chief of State. Few Germans, East or West, will mourn his passing. Yet few can deny that Ulbricht alone was the architect of modern East Germany, whose separate existence the West Germans have finally accepted...
...past three years, Brezhnev has had five successful meetings with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, French President Georges Pompidou and President Nixon. He has been the crucial partner in Brandt's policy of Ostpolitik, and has formed a more protective Westpolitik of his own, which seeks to preserve ideological conformity -especially in Eastern Europe-by providing more material benefits. Next month the Helsinki Conference on European Security will take up formal ratification of the post-World War II political status quo of Eastern Europe...
...setting foot on West German soil is not lost on Bonn, of course. The visit will symbolize the rapprochement, if not yet the reconciliation, between two of the bitterest enemies of World War II. It will also represent another diplomatic trophy for Brandt in his pursuit of Ostpolitik...
Barzel's fall is closely connected with his wavering stance on Ostpolitik. Last year, when Bonn's treaties with Moscow and Warsaw came up for ratification in the Bundestag, he failed for months to make up his mind what party policy should be. Just before the Bundestag debate on the treaties, he decided that the C.D.U.-C.S.U. deputies should vote against ratification; then, after a bipartisan policy declaration had been worked out, he said he would allow a free vote. Under pressure from C.S.U. Leader Franz Josef Strauss, he changed his mind again and said that the opposition...