Word: unificationism
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Many Europeans are apprehensive about reassembling a Germany of 77 million people in the center of the Continent. The Soviets, who estimate they lost 26 million people in their Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, have been the most vehement. If they were able, the Soviets would prevent unification altogether...
That exact proposal has been advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher. Under the Genscher plan, Germany would remain in NATO, but the alliance would undertake not to move any military units eastward after unification. It was only after a reassuring two-hour discussion with Genscher that Shevardnadze...
A recent poll indicates that 61% of the French favor German unification (vs. 45% of the British), but Paris officials are not enthusiastic. Said Foreign Minister Roland Dumas: "I took note of the remark of one East German who said, 'Our friendly neighbors should understand the desire of Germans for...
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...
West German officials have presented a strong defense of their motives and tried to put down the fears emanating from East and West. "We are aware of the historical dimension of this process," Genscher said in Ottawa, and that includes "remembering all the suffering inflicted on other nations in the...