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...envoys are currently negotiating diplomatic recognition of Red China. The U.S., as always, will lead the opposition. There are reports as well that East Germany is anxious for membership, and that East European nations will attempt a bit of backdoor maneuvering in order to gain U.N. status for Walter Ulbricht's regime. Neither Germany is now a member, although West Germany holds observer status...
...Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them all: East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht. Pleading illness, Ulbricht stayed home and sent Premier Willi Stoph in his place...
...Since Ulbricht had looked hale at an East German Politburo meeting only a few days earlier, the old Stalinist was presumably suffering from a case of diplomatic indigestion. Both the Poles and Soviets have been sweet-talking the West Germans of late, an activity as unlikely as it is an anathema to Ulbricht...
...unprecedented overture, Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations with West Germany in return for Bonn's acceptance of the present Oder-Neisse line as Germany's permanent eastern border. Ulbricht is understandably outraged, since he argues that his German state alone has the right to negotiate about German boundaries in the East. Ulbricht undoubtedly fears that the Poles may be willing to sell him out in order to seek trade and an easing of tensions with the larger, more prosperous half of Germany...
...came from Czechoslovakia's Party Boss Gustav Husak, who succeeded the deposed reformer Alexander Dubcek. He said that Soviet military intervention served Czechoslovakia's best interests and dismissed foreign Communist critics of the action as having only superficial knowledge of the situation. East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov vigorously defended the Soviet positions. Most likely, the Soviets could be confident that when the conference ends, probably this week, the tally of Moscow '69 will be, in numbers at least, largely in their favor...