Word: ostpolitiking
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...sheer cynicism, President Nixon's new Ostpolitik is not without historical precedent...
...political strength. If London opts to stay out, the French would be tempted to play up to Moscow, and perhaps also to Britain, as a hedge against West German hegemony in Western Europe. Another bad effect would be the undermining of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. Brandt cannot hope to establish a sound and peaceful basis for relations with the Communist nations unless he is backed by a strong, united Western Europe. An isolated Germany, moreover, has undertaken irrational and tragic actions in the past. In the U.S., Western Europe's failure to unite would intensify...
...been able to create a contrapuntal dialogue of ideas. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt defended his treaty with the Soviet Union as a necessary forerunner of general East-West détente; Arthur Goldberg subsequently scolded Brandt's U.S. critics, notably George Ball, for endangering the Ostpolitik effort, and got scolded in turn by Ball for trying to foreclose discussion of Brandt's policies. The Times became the first major paper to pinpoint an ideological split within the ranks of American conservatives when Op-Ed allowed Economist Rothbard, a onetime contributor to William Buckley's National Review...
...cultural ties with the West, were delighted. Some Western analysts argue that he was pressured by the Soviets into moving aside. According to that line of reasoning, Moscow grew weary of Ulbricht's obstructionist tactics, which hampered Soviet attempts to capitalize on Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik in order to secure Russia's western flank. Wolfgang Leonhard, a visiting professor at Yale and former ranking East German ideologue, who knows both Ulbricht and Honecker, leans toward the theory that old "Spitzbart" (meaning pointed beard) was nudged. Leonhard, a former aide of Ulbricht's, notes that...
...from Europe; after a trip there in January, he confessed that he was "rethinking" his position. While Muskie has not changed his stand, he is looking it over in the light of his conversations with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt -who argues that a U.S. pullout would weaken his Ostpolitik. A fiipflop? Perhaps, or perhaps only a legitimate reconsideration prompted by an altered situation...