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...possibly be distancing itself from NATO was delivered by a leading figure of the left wing of Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party. Just as General Alexander Haig and other NATO commanders were warning about the Soviet Union's ominous military buildup, the S.P.D.'s parliamentary floor leader, Herbert Wehner, insisted that Moscow's moves were "defensive and not offensive." Wehner argued against the deployment of U.S. Cruise and Pershing II nuclear-tipped missiles on West German soil to counter Soviet intermediate-range weapons not covered by SALT...
...Eduardo Wehner...
...with Brandt's failure to curb the JUSOS, his longtime lieutenant, Herbert Wehner, 67, resigned last year as deputy chairman of the party. The two men hardly speak now. Nevertheless, Wehner has just been re-elected floor leader by his colleagues in the Bundestag. However, it is the continuing opposition of Brandt's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, that is largely responsible for his failure to move forward with promised social reforms. The Free Democrats, who hold veto power over all legislation, are locked in an ideological debate with Brandt over how far to go in giving West...
...central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions, it said, "but which Europe will give it the answer? Pompidou's fading neo-Gaullism? Brandt, suspended between Atlantic loyalty and necessity and the temptation of the opening to the East? Italy, shaken by internal crises?" Herbert Wehner, the Social Democratic floor leader in the Bundestag and one of Brandt's closest advisers, was even more skeptical. "I don't think even Kissinger knows what he wants to achieve with the charter," he told newsmen in Sweden. "I don't believe that the proposal is realistic...
Thus, 91 years to the day after Bismarck banned the Socialists from Imperial Germany and 39 years since the party last headed a government, a Socialist candidate was chosen to lead West Germany. Political Strategist Herbert Wehner, the fierce ex-Communist who masterminded the transformation of the Socialists from a blue-collar movement into a more broadly based party, rushed to embrace Brandt. Their dream finally realized, Brandt openly wept. "I am satisfied, grateful for the confidence and a little proud," he said a few moments later. Then the new Chancellor, who spent the Nazi years in Scandinavian exile, added...