U.K.: WEST GERMAN LEADER HERR WILLY BRANDT DISCUSSES POSSIBLE U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM EUROPE
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U.K.: WEST GERMAN LEADER HERR WILLY BRANDT DISCUSSES POSSIBLE U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM EUROPE
- Title: U.K.: WEST GERMAN LEADER HERR WILLY BRANDT DISCUSSES POSSIBLE U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM EUROPE
- Date: 2nd March 1970
- Summary: 1. GV Brandt's car arrives Downing Street 0.03 2. SV Wilson at steps 0.07 3. SV Brandt out of car and greeted 0.15 4. SCU They shake hands 0.23 5. SV & CU Brandt seated with interviewer 0.28 6. SOF STARTS: 3.04 REPORTER: "MR. CHANCELLOR, THE PRESSURES APPEAR TO BE BUILDING UP IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE AMERICANS TO TAKE TROOPS OUT OF EUROPE. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT LIKELY TO BE FOR EUROPE?" BRANDT: "WELL, TO BEGIN WITH I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS IS NOTHING WHICH WILL HAPPEN TODAY OR TOMORROW. I THINK WE CAN BE SURE THAT NO MAJOR CHANGE WILL TAKE PLACE BEFORE MID 1971. PRESIDENT NIXON IN HIS FOREIGN POLITICAL REPORTS TO THE AMERICAN CONGRESS UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF STRONG COOPERATION BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. HE ALSO SAID THAT ONE SHOULD LOOK INTO THE STRATEGIC NECESSITIES ONCE MORE, NATO'S STRATEGIC NECESSITIES - I THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. IF WE ARE AIMING AT GETTING INTO DISCUSSIONS OF THIS KIND THEN WE SHOULD RATHER NOT HAVE TOO MANY UNILATERAL CHANGES BEFORE THAT. REPORTER: "WELL, WHAT IS THE PROSPECT DO YOU THINK, SUPPOSING THE AMERICANS WILL MAKE WITHDRAWALS FROM EUROPE OF RECIPROCAL REDUCTIONS BEING MADE BY THE RUSSIANS, THE WARSAW PACT?" BRANDT: "WELL, WE WILL HAVE TO TRY TO FIND THAT OUT, IF WE DO NOT MAKE THAT PART OF THE NEGOTIATIONS THEN I THINK THE CHANCES ARE NOT SO GOOD." REPORTER: "WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR LEGACY TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE, AS CHANCELLOR, TO BE - A MAJOR STEP IN THE SOLUTION OF THE GERMAN PROBLEM OR WOULD IT BE INITIATIVES, ABOVE ALL, TO STRENGTHEN THE WEST. BRANDT: "I AM AFRAID THAT THAT DOESN'T EXIST, THAT KIND OF AN ALTERNATIVE. MAYBE IT DID EXIST 20 OR 15 YEARS AGO. THERE IS NO SOLUTION TO THE GERMAN PROBLEM NOW, TO THE GERMAN PROBLEM IN THE SENSE OF THE TRADITIONAL REUNIFICATION. THERE MAY BE A CHANCE TO REDUCE CERTAIN OF THE DIFFICULTIES AND THE HARDSHIPS, BUT ALL THE REST OF IT FOR US, FOR US GERMANS, DEPENDS UPON CHANGES BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST AS A WHOLE. ONLY MAJOR CHANCES IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN WEST AND EASTERN EUROPE THAT ALSO COULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE TWO PARTS OF THE GERMAN NATION TO COME CLOSER TO EACH OTHER. Initials JB/V & V-TELE/PW/PC JB/V & V-TELE/PW/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, U.K.
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- Country: United Kingdom
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