[Willy Brandt] said: "Come back to my hotel room and we can… - Hella Pick

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[Willy Brandt] said: "Come back to my hotel room and we can talk." I went back and we sat down and he asked about my background and we talked and we talked and we talked. I didn't get out until three in the morning and everyone on the Guardian thought: "She must have gone to bed with him."
Well, she didn't go to bed with him but she became completely reconciled to Germany because she had got to know Willy Brandt.

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Hella Henrietta Pick CBE (24 April 1927 – 4 April 2024) was an Austrian-born British journalist.

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When I started work, women who were doing any kind of political foreign affairs reporting were really very, very thin on the ground. You could really name them all.

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