Word: ostpolitiking
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Strauss has been a rallying point for Germans who still dream of reunification. His unconcealed hatred of the Soviet and East Berlin regimes made him the leading opponent in the Bundestag of former Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. He has not budged in his position. Interviewed recently in his Munich penthouse, he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "Ostpolitik's trade deals are absurd. First we offer to sell the Soviets something; then we give them the money to buy it. That's a marvelous way of doing business, isn't it? We should concentrate on improving...
EUROPE. Charles de Gaulle started the newest phase of détente by his visit to Moscow in 1966, and Willy Brandt expanded it with his Ostpolitik in 1969, but it is the Europeans, ironically, together with the Chinese and the Japanese, who have the greatest distrust of U.S.-Soviet détente. NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, the distinguished, strongly anti-Communist Dutch diplomat, warned at the Ottawa meeting that the U.S.S.R. considers détente a "oneway process serving the exclusive interests of the Soviet Union." One school of Kremlinologists, centered chiefly in Britain and including such...
...insult to Eisenhower, who deserves much of the credit for the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, and to Kennedy, who brought about the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Besides, Nixon didn't even begin the present round of détente; Willy Brandt did with his Ostpolitik...
...regime that there are hidden dangers in detente. According to this reasoning, the East Germans have achieved the international recognition they want from détente, but now refuse to open their country to more contacts with the West. Thus, by embarrassing Brandt, the East Germans hope to discredit Ostpolitik in Bonn and reduce the pressure for internal change...
...foreign policy, Schmidt and Genscher will undoubtedly continue Brandt's Ostpolitik, but with less fervor...