Dear Editor
Dear Editor German Summitry Having just returned from another study trip to the German Federal Republic, I should like to add my own observations concerning Chancellor Willy Brandt's "opening to...
...There is considerable evidence to suggest that the leaders of the German Democratic Republic did not wish to have any negotiations at all...
...Napoleon told Goethe: "Politics is fate...
...Dear Editor German Summitry Having just returned from another study trip to the German Federal Republic, I should like to add my own observations concerning Chancellor Willy Brandt's "opening to the East" to those of Donald R. Shanor ("Correspondents' Correspondence...
...One hundred sixty-one years before the March summit talks in Erfurt, when two of the greatest figures in world history met in that small Thuringian town...
...New York City Stanley Stein Thome The Soviet Union is obviously a difficult place to sustain a literary career, though the situation is not much better in certain other countries where the supressed writers are generally of the Left...
...And indeed, the future of the German talks is in the hands of fate...
...Morris Borkar...
...Yet even in the best of times????And the present is clearly not [he worst????the Kremlin policy is, to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, an enigma wrapped in mystery...
...NL, May 25) thai a Russian "prose writer dare not show the dark aspects of human nature or end his story on an unhappy note" seems to present a bad situation as even worse than it actually is...
...Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were imprisoned????without doubt, an outrageous action?not for ignoring Socialist Realism, b'lt for criticizing it...
...Chicago, 111...
...Socialist Realism" is, of course, the Soviet literary Establishment's official doctrine, yet it is not a "straitjacket," since writers are not systematically forced to adhere to its conventions and limitations...
...But the Soviets, faced with what they regard as a growing threat from China, are anxious to have the status quo in Central Europe accepted in the West and so pushed the talks...
...But Ludmilla Thome's assertion ("Exploring the Emigre Spirit...
...My own view is that Willy Brandt is engaged in a game of political poker with limited stakes...
...Thus, like all major questions thrown up by the Bonn government's diplomatic initiative, the answer to any improvement in German affairs lies not in Erfurt, Kassel or East Berlin, but in Moscow...
...The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...True, the Germans are speaking to each other????but then what...
...June 8...
...For even in the most favorable circumstances????And despite the agreement to meet some time again, all the portents point to the reverse????the attempt to better the relationship between the two Germanies will prove a very long and difficult prccess...
Vol. 53 • July 1970 • No. 14
