Volume 20, Number 3 · March 8, 1973
East Germany Lives
By Neal Ascherson
Honecker and the New Politics of Europe
by Heinz Lippmann, translated by Helen Sebba
Macmillan, 272 pp., $7.95
The Changing Party Elite in East Germany
by Peter C. Ludz
MIT Press, 509 pp., $15.00
Behind the Berlin Wall
by Steven Kelman
Houghton Mifflin, 327 pp., $6.95
We are watching what is supposed to be the end of a great war in Asia—an ending so difficult and so often interrupted by checks and relapses that it is more like witnessing a painful death than a birth. Whether the war ends or not, the United States and its allies are silently, but with hideous peristaltic convulsions, eating a million words. The same is true in Central Europe, where the United States and her NATO allies are ending a phase of the cold war and swallowing, in the process, an even vaster number of proclamations and eternal promises. The West is setting about recognizing the German Democratic Republic at last.
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