Brandt Suspected of Supporting Independent Actions of Berlin
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By Joseph B. Fleming
EERLIN -(UPI)- The Western allies are concerned about the increasing tendency of the West Berlin city government to act without consulting them.
At worst, a serious international incident might arise if the city again acts without consulting the United States, Britain and France in the extremely sensitive field of security.
In various ways Mayor Willy Brandt's government is said to be trying to extend its authority and increase its powers at the expense of the city's three occupation powers.
Some of these acts are dismissed by Western allied officials as the natural expression of city impatience with a long occupation and an often unwieldy process of consultation.
The city's attitude puzzles allied officials. They do not know what the city is up to or what it hopes to gain by laxity in fulfilling its obligation to consult the allies or by outright failure to do so.
But some are viewed seriously. Fears exist that a unilateral city act could weaken the city's' legal position and play into Communist hands.
The Big Three and West Berliners became allies during the 1948-1949 blockade.
As the years went by the alliance grew stronger, affection developed.
by the air not grow stronger, affection developed. The alliance and affection still exist but lately the Western allies have been keeping a wary eye on the "Schoeosjerg Rathaus," the seat of the West Berlin city government.
Ever since the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961 there has been an undercurrent of tension in the relations between the city and the "protective powers," as the city calls the Big Three.
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Some Western officials believe city officials decided, in effect, that if the Western Allies were so weak they allowed the wall to go up, there was not much sense in consulting them about other problems.
The city began to act independently some time after the wall went up, but the new West Berlin attitude did not become readily apparent until April 8 when West Berlin police at the U.S. Army's Checkpoint Charlie demanded that Russian diplomats identify themselves to get into West Berlin.
It turned out that Deputy Mayor Heinrich Albertz, who also is in charge of city security, had ordered the checks without consulting the Allies.
The U.S. mission here immediately ordered the police to stop checking Russian diplomats.
In the first place, Western allied officials said, the city knows that the Western Allies for years have been asserting that Berlin fourpower officials—Russian or Western allied—may be checked only by one of the four powers and not by Germans—East or West.
This is one of the foundations of the Western Allies' Berlin policy. Discarding this plank—and the Russians would be very happy to discard it—would mean interference
not only with the Western Allied right to enter East Berlin but could endanger the vital Western allied traffic to the city.
Western officials are not sure how big a part Mayor Brandt plays in the campaign. They would like to believe subordinates are responsible.
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Others assert that Brandt cannot be ignorant of what his top aides are doing and say they would not dare act without his support.
If Brandt knows, what are his aims?
In addition to being Mayor he is now head of the West German Social Democratic Party and again candidate for chancellor against Ludwig Erhard, a Christian Democrat.
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