Word: ostpolitiking
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...divert attention from the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. But the Soviets undoubtedly hope to accomplish more than that. In their view, West Germany represents the chief threat to the status quo in Eastern Europe, and behind much of the Soviet hostility lies the success of West Germany's Ostpolitik. Until two years ago, the West German government refused to have any political dealings with the Communist countries in Eastern Europe, a rigid cold war stance that suited the Krem lin's own aims well. Then in came the Grand Coalition, whose Foreign Minister, Willy Brandt, initiated the radical...
...Soviet attitude toward West Germany conducive to a relaxation of tensions. In a stormy 90-minute conference, Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin told Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger that Bonn must cease its new Ostpolitik, which aimed at establishing normal diplomatic and trade relations with the East bloc countries. Any West German initiative toward the East bloc would be regarded by Moscow as an aggressive action, said the Russian, and the West Germans would have to bear the consequences. The warning was especially unnerving, since in recent weeks the Soviets have stressed that the Soviet Union, like the other victorious powers in World...
...hurt him most-restricting inter-German trade-since that would also hurt the average East German. Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition is committed to a policy of trying to make life easier, not harder, for the East German population. Furthermore, because of the partial success of its new Ostpolitik, Bonn does not want to lose friends in Communist countries by appearing to be as repressive as Ulbricht...
...certain that this new but still moderate Ostpolitik will in itself revive Berlin. What is more likely is that the city's Social Democratic Party (SPD), once one of the most progressive and daring political forces in Germany, will take action on its own. If that happened, and there are signs that it will, party politics, and the very definition of party could be changed in Germany...
While Kiesinger still has reservations about the nonproliferation treaty, which may well be presented to the Geneva disarmament conference this week, he got the President's warm assurance that the U.S. approves of Ostpolitik, Bonn's new policy of cultivating ties with Eastern Europe...