Word: george
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Attempts to initiate talks between East and West Germany have always ended in failure, and there is little reason to believe that the most recent effort will have any atypical success. Responding to an appeal from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist party boss, proposed this week that Kiesinger meet with East German premier Willi Stoph to "negotiate an understanding between the two German states...
Portrait by Romney. Dining at 10 Downing Street, he delightedly pointed out to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even...
Between calls on Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, and Pope Paul VI, Nixon took time out to explain that the formation of the committee was not a formal announcement of his candidacy. "I have made no decision with regard to my own political activities," he said, "and would not make one in the foreseeable future...
When pollsters asked West Germans last August if they knew who Kurt Georg Kiesinger was, fully 45% said: Sorry, never heard of the fellow. Last week, 100 days after Kiesinger became Chancellor, the polls showed not only that 96% of all West Germans know their man, but also that 60% think he is doing a good job and only 6% criticize his work. The new fame of Baden-Württemberg's former minister-president is by no means undeserved. Since he put together the unprecedented black-red coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, Kiesinger has brought...
...Harold Wilson's most frustrating week since last July's sterling crisis - and it was, in fact, a pretty dismal week for British diplomacy in general. Having failed in his peacemaking attempt with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Wilson flew off to Bonn with Foreign Secretary George Brown on what appeared to be a much simpler task: to try to persuade the West Germans to help Britain gain entry to the European Common Market. Since the West Germans already are on record as favoring British entry, Wilson hoped that he could induce Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his colleagues...