Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would you assess U.S.-German relations, and your own relationship with President Carter...
...senior British diplomat who admires Schmidt complains that the new West German leadership is still too narrowly focused on national interest instead of international cooperation. Says he: "We haven't yet seen the wider vision. It is still 'Germany First.' And the German stand ?like Scarlett O'Hara's vow that 'I'm never going to be hungry again...
...understand this very clearly if one looks to the Swiss franc. The Swiss franc is even a stronger currency than the deutsche mark, and the Swiss economy is even stronger than the German economy, but nobody would ever believe that for this reason Switzerland is a world power. Swiss defense is first-rate, but nobody would ever believe that for this reason Switzerland is a world power. To sum it all up: Germany is not a world power; it does not wish to become a world power...
...will not deny that taking all into account, Germany politically is much stronger today than it was ten years ago, 20 years ago. There is no doubt about it. Fifteen years ago, a prominent West German politician used to quip that Germany economically was a giant but politically was a dwarf. I don't think that this holds true any longer. But I am rather cautious that nobody in Bonn overplay Germany's hand. There still is the unique vulnerability of this divided nation. There still is the sensitivity of all our neighbors in Europe, who well remember...
...itself is a great asset and leads to close cooperation. There have been federal Chancellors in Bonn and American Presidents who have not been on such good terms in their times. But personal relations are only one aspect between our two countries. Relations between the two administrations, in the German view, are characterized by three significant experiences. No. 1, we have, to a very great degree, adopted American ideas about the structure of a federal democracy, American ideas of human rights. Second, we have experienced an astonishing degree of American solidarity vis-a-vis a former enemy over whom...