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...reunification will come about only after a European detente and not as a first step toward such a detente, as Adenauer and Erhard had maintained. Nor is the government totally opposed to the idea of recognizing the East German regime. Herbert Wether, one of the top leaders of the SPD and Kiesinger's Minister for All German Affairs, has already gone on record as favoring recognition, if such a step could bring about an easing of present restrictions. There is a totally new spirit in Bonn today which Mr. Rosberg has failed to depict. Gebhard Schweigler '67 Lutz Hoppner...
Ironically, it was East Germany's Red boss, Walter Ulbricht, 72, who inadvertently touched off the outburst. As a propaganda ploy, Ulbricht has for years written an annual letter to the Social Democrat Party in West Germany, piously imploring the SPD as the representative of the working class to join with his Socialist Unity Party in bringing about German reunification. Each year the Social Democrats had refused to answer the detested Ulbricht-until this year. Reflecting West Germany's new and more flexible attitude toward the Communist bloc, the Social Democrats last month fired back a reply that...
Ulbricht was so pleased to finally get a reply from the West that he overruled his advisers and ordered Neues Deutschland, the official daily paper, to print the SPD letter. Though an East German rejoinder rejecting the Western proposals ran alongside, East Germans did not seem to notice. They were seized with excitement at the sudden start of a dialogue between East and West. The issue of Neues Deutschland, which was snatched off the newsstands within minutes when the letters appeared late last month, was selling last week on the black market at 40 to 50 times the original price...
...class consciousness, and by plugging policies that were anathema to the Socialists only a few years ago. Proclaimed West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt in his Cologne speech: "We say that the Federal Republic must cultivate and develop the relationship of trust with the United States." From SPD Economic Pundit Heinrich Deist there was no kind word for nationalization of industry; instead, he urged free competition, mildly suggested that capitalism be improved by better anti-cartel legislation and restriction of lobbyists...
Demon in Disguise. Wehner was prominent in the "ohne mich" (without me) campaign of the early 19505 against a West German army, urged concessions to Moscow as a price for German reunification. His support for the SPD's ill-fated "Deutschland Plan," which looked toward removal of Eastern and Western troops from Germany and Bonn's withdrawal from NATO, only bolstered Konrad Adenauer's suspicions that a Communist was trying to take over the Socialist movement. "A demon," growled Adenauer...