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Distant Enemies. The crisis laid bare the ugly infighting in the C.D.U. Of the leading Christian Democratic politicians, only Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder really rallied to Erhard's side. Most of the others seemed poised, in the words of Erich Mende, like "Brutuses waiting to strike down the Chancellor's Julius Caesar." Some seemed happy to make the coalition rebuilding job as difficult as possible...
...they considered a grab for power, party leaders talked Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would wreck NATO, and issued a glacial statement sniffing that Barzel's ideas were strictly "personal opinions...
Erhard, however, also senses a need to improve relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder has been angling for an invitation to Russia for some time. In an obvious effort to soothe Soviet fears about West German fingers on nuclear triggers, the Erhard government sent a note to 100-odd nations calling for a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Among its proposals was an offer to sign bilateral agreements with Russia and the East European countries for the exchange of military observers...
...easy for the flag to follow the trade. Just before last September's elections, Schroder hinted that he would like to see West German missions in East European countries elevated to embassies-and was quickly shouted down by Bavaria's Conservative Leader Franz Josef Strauss. Blessed with the backing of C.D.U. Chairman Konrad Adenauer, Strauss still has it in for Schroder for his role in the 1962 Spiegel affair, which cost Strauss his job as Defense Minister. Accused of being "soft" on the "Eastern question," Schroder quickly backed away...
...Strauss & Co., Schroder is also suspect for his views on Oder-Neisse, although his public words on the subject have been conventional enough. Recently, he expressed the government's view on the church memorandum: "We must not abandon or weaken our position in regard to the German eastern territories," he said, "unless there is a relation to the reunification problem." His colleague in the C.D.U., Hamburg Party Chairman Erik Blumenfeld, went a long step farther. "A solution of the border question," he said, "can only be reached by balancing the interests of the two parties involved. The overwhelming interest...