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...practice, this is almost true already. A stone's throw from concrete remnants of the Maginot Line in Rheingau, France, the French government subsidizes a ferry to take day-laborers and others across the Rhine into Germany, where they go through an unmanned border station...
...land that, according to Tacitus, "either bristles with forests or reeks with swamps." Even then, German tribesmen had a reputation as fearsome fighters, and it was immensely important to the future history of Europe that they annihilated three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest in A.D. 9, leaving the Rhine as the frontier between the Roman and Germanic worlds. But it was the Romans who originally invaded those forests to "pacify" the Germans, as they had pacified Gaul and Britain...
...matter what is going to be negotiated, I have one consolation: the Rhine is flowing on and will reach the sea. It is the same with German unity. And there is something I know today that I did not expect five years ago: this decade will also bring European unity...
...Everyone knows that I am an old supporter of Berlin. But this subject does not have to be dealt with now. It will be debated in an all-German parliament. The decision on a capital cannot be made as long as Soviet troops are deployed there. The Rhine will flow for a long time until this question is raised. If that were our only problem, we would have no problems...
...Europe's destiny is no longer controlled by the rival superpowers -- and that unification is imminent. Last week in Bonn, representatives of West and East Germany and the four World War II Allies -- the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union -- sat down in the Foreign Ministry on the Rhine to begin the complicated business of consolidating, and securing, a single German state...