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...this day," said Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a moving speech. "The guilt and fate of this epoch of our history will not leave us for generations." Moscow, however, was determined to rub it in on the West Germans. Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew to East Berlin to join Puppet Walter Ulbricht and Poland's Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in a parade of thousands of Russian and East German troops...
Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...
That was about the only sign of perfection along the Nile last week, for Ulbricht was an expensive guest in a febrile situation. Nasser had invited Ulbricht as a way of getting even with West Germany for its secret arms shipments to Israel. When suspension of the shipments failed to head off the visit, Bonn retaliated. Over the past six years Bonn has supplied Egypt with more than $400 million in hard currency loans and development aid, and last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard canceled all further financial support...
Nasser claimed that this would hurt German trade more than Egypt and looked for aid elsewhere. A French technical mission is currently touring the country scouting possible projects; Poland has already offered to take up some of the slack; and Ulbricht himself has committed $83 million in East German money...
Backing Nasser, the 13-member Arab League warned that resumption of the arms shipments would force them to break relations with Bonn and, presumably, recognize the East German regime. Still, Nasser was moving carefully. He withheld full recognition from East Germany, and in a remarkable aside to Ulbricht, he said: "I needn't explain to you the deplorable and painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with...