Word: germanophobia
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Arguments, no matter how logical, are unlikely to ease the Germanophobia that still afflicts Europe. But such anxieties are fortunately not driving the governments of East and West in the wrong direction. They are not trying to stop the movement toward unification. All have formally upheld the German right to self-determination and have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete...
...Tory government was in a hurry, for unless some quick solution could be found for German rearmament, its Labor opponents might be tempted to cash in on the mounting Germanophobia being whipped up in Britain (TIME, Aug. 23). Sir Winston Churchill snorted that it was time for "action, not talk"; the London Times brooded that unless "something is done," future generations might remember August 1954 "as almost as dark a date for Europe as August...
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