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Article: Keep Germany Divided; The Dirty Little Secret Is That It Means a Europe at Peace
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- The Washington Post
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- June 14, 1987
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"THERE IS only one Berlin"-President Reagan's words at The Wall
Friday-may not have quite the zing of the JFK original "I am a
Berliner." But Reagan did move the Kennedy declaration out of the
realm of compassion and into possible politics and very possible
grave danger in his implied plea for the reunification of Berlin, and
then, as night the day, all Germany.
Many, perhaps most, Americans think of "divided Germany" as a
kind of tragedy inflicted upon our most reliable allies, the Germans,
by our most feared and hated enemy, the Soviet Union. It is thought,
too, that Germany of right and custom, like other countries, ought to
be unified, to be one country with one capital of more ...