Word: anti-german
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...Executive to further Churchill's goal of setting "Europe ablaze" with underground activity. But most of the resistance was fueled by patriotism and hatred of Nazi rule. Sabotage and guerrilla activity helped keep the Occupation forces off balance, and the resistance smuggled out information to the Allies and dispensed anti-German propaganda...
...Bonn's partners in the E.C. and NATO, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer...
Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make...
Most of the concerns about German unity have traditionally come from Moscow, but anti-German sentiment has by no means disappeared in Western Europe, despite nearly four decades of close cooperation inside the European Community. A Dutch official, who asked not to be identified, said last week, "Except for the Germans, no one in Europe wants reunification." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has given broad hints of her feelings. At a dinner at 10 Downing Street in honor of Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki last week, she said the developments in Europe "may stir deeply felt anxieties." Poland and Britain...
Dominique Moisi, co-founder of the French Institute for International Relations, finds that anti-German attitudes have become "rather fashionable among the French elite." The "climate of opinion," he says, is "moving in the wrong direction. We are beginning to see Germany presented as the new Japan within Europe. Japan is a code word for something alien, something non- European." He believes, on the contrary, that Germany is a "truly European power" and its unification will be a "positive thing...