Word: revanchists
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...along with the skilled and dogged Hans-Dietrich Genscher, has made some perspicacious moves, such as his detailed and reasonable plan for confederation in November. But he scared and angered his Eastern neighbors by letting them think he was leaving open the possibility that a unified Germany might press revanchist claims on parts of Poland. His retreat on the issue this spring was an occasion more for relief than for congratulation...
Like what? A neo-Stalinist backlash in the U.S.S.R. restarts the cold war and threatens a hot one? Or a secessionist warlord in Belorussia grabs some nuclear weapons from Soviet stockpiles and brandishes them? Or Hungary presses revanchist claims to Transylvania? Astonishing developments might not always be as welcome as they were last year. The Administration's warning is deliberately vague. It invites listeners to fill in the blank with their own worst fears. The American manifesto for the '90s is that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of "unpredictability" and "instability." Those were the words that Bush used...
Most West Germans dismiss the idea of reclaiming their former territories. But revanchist organizations, which include some of the survivors of the Germans who left the east, continue to use the issue as a political weapon. Hartmut Koschyk, head of the 2 million-member Association of Expellees, suggests that a "compromise" with Poland could work out a border "territorially in the middle...
...another one of our operatives, an alert alumnus of that famous school, whose name I cannot divulge, tried to whip up a little more anti-Communist feeling. He wrote a letter to Bok, very cleverly, criticizing the fact that Harvard had on its Faculty an avowed communist that despicable revanchist, Kautskian John Womack, who has brown-nosed his way to the head of the History Department there...
...attenuate. But the internal difficulties of these Arab regimes and the growing pan-Islamic tide led by Iran will not simply disappear. Neither, will Israel, nor presumably, will the common hatred of Israel. Whether out of the need for an external enemy for internal unity, or out of revanchist motivations, it is safe to assume that Israel will remain an object of enmity. Israel's security needs logically become paramount...