Successful Drive

West Germany's new policy of establishing diplomatic relations with the east-bloc nations is having amazing success. This week Rumania will become the first Eastern European nation to ex, change ambassadors with Bonn. Hungary and Bulgaria are expected to follow Rumania's example within the next few months, and promising negotiations also are under way with Czechoslova-w rn?1-8 alarms East German Boss Walter Ulbncht, 73, who fears that West German presence in the East might iso ate his own unlovely Stalinist regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors in east-bloc capitals have been talking themselves hoarse about the dangers of West German revanche and the evils of deserting Communism's united front Ulbricht even appealed to the Soviet Union to call a halt to the trafficking with Bonn. It did no good. The Russians feared that their orders might not be heeded and might even alienate some countries that they are trying to enlist for support in their quarrel with Red China. Despite their usual cries about German militarism, they are not trying to stop West Germany's diplomatic and commercial drive to the East.

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