Word: vaterland
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...Liechtenstein, the enemy is clear. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the debate recently, the local newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her claws." Günther Fritz, Vaterland's editor-in-chief, says, "We're not a very patriotic people, but under pressure from Germany, everyone is banding together." Bankgeheimnis - bank secrecy - may not stir the human soul the way liberté, egalité, fraternité does, but it seems to work in Liechtenstein...
Patrie. Homeland. Vaterland. Fosterlandet. It's a powerful and often vexing concept in any language, let alone in the 11 now spoken in the European Union - or the 20-plus that will be spoken here after the E.U. expands next May. Even so, true believers have long dreamed that all of Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week. First the Swedes - a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity - resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland. That blow came...
...yield to liberation without a struggle. On the instructions of worried West Berlin officials, workmen last week were stringing lines of barbed wire along its boundaries. There were fears that curious West Berliners, poking around in the ruins, might be crushed by the crumbling walls of the old Haus Vaterland dance hall, which stood near the station ruins, or blown up by unexploded bombs and artillery shells left there since World...
...Newsday, Long Island; Joseph Strickland of The Detroit News; John Zakarian of the Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois; Miss Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio Ortiz Ramos of The Manila Chronicle. The Editorial Page Cartoonist was George Amick of The Trenton Times...
...Germans, the word Heimat (homeland) has a deep sentimental significance. From political exiles such as Poet Heinrich Heine in 1831 (Ich hatte einst ein schones Vaterland) to modern-day emigres in the Americas whose eyes fill with tears at the memory of some sooty mill town in the Ruhrgebiet, Heimat is that distant place you came from-and forever recall over beers and tears. Last week all of West Germany was aroused over the Heimat issue as political reality clashed head-on with sentiment...