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...before on an informal basis, Ulbricht now refuses to talk unless the West Germans decide to give official recognition to his regime-and, in the process, accept the principle that Germany must remain divided. There is another reason for the freeze: Pankow wants absolutely nothing to do with Herbert Wehner, Bonn's new Minister of All-German Affairs...
...Nazi Party?a fact on which the world's press has concentrated almost singlemindedly. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, 52, the Social Democrat who came into the government as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a wartime refugee from the Nazis and a member of the underground. Herbert Wehner, 60, the powerful Socialist theoretician who became the Cabinet minister in charge of working for German reunification, was once a Communist. As Kurt Kiesinger sees it the new government is "a contribution to the reconciliation of the German people...
...Kosygin last week in France?to attack its policies and raise the specter of neo-Nazism or fascism. It wishes devoutly that De Gaulle would stop chiding it for not following his leadership, as if Germany were a nation of schoolboys. "Whichever way the Federal Republic turns," said Herbert Wehner in a remark that has been widely adopted in Germany, "the wind blows in our faces...
...situation, Kiesinger ruled out the Free Democrats as too fickle for another coalition. Besides, he believed that Germany needed a strong government to counteract the growing mood of dissatisfaction with what many people called "the mess in Bonn." Therefore, he arranged a secret meeting in Bonn with Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' deputy leader who handles party matters while Chairman Brandt attends to his mayoral duties in Berlin...
...Wehner was conscious that the rank-and-file of his party opposed helping their old foes out of their dilemma. Furthermore, since preference polls showed the Socialists leading the Christian Democrats by a comfortable margin, there was a strong sentiment in the party to ride out the crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige...