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Personal relations between the two leaders' immediate predecessors -Georges Pompidou and Willy Brandt -were never close and sometimes downright frosty. Thus the spectacle of a genuinely close relationship between Paris and Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well...
Radical Chic. While Schmidt has restored a bit of Prussian efficiency to German politics, Giscard, 48, has brought radical chic to France's government. The transformation is all the more surprising because as Pompidou...
Changes of government are not in themselves a discouraging sign. On the contrary, they may signal the emergence of fresh leadership. In France, Georges Pompidou was succeeded by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, whose narrow victory over Socialist opposition marks the end of Gaullism but may mark the beginning of a new, more human exercise of power that will test whether France can exist short of "grandeur" without lapsing into disorder. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned amid scandal; yet even in resigning he displayed a sense of responsibility that is itself an element of leadership. He was succeeded...
JEAN SAUVAGNARGUES, 59, Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...
Senior German officials do not expect the personal bond between the two leaders to alter the basic views of national interest so deeply held in both countries. It is well to remember, though, that Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou did not like and trust each other; Schmidt and Giscard do. That is a notable advantage even, or perhaps especially, when policies diverge...