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The Prospects for German Reunification |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Mark Holston |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,402 Words, 14,613 Characters |
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It is by virtually every measurement an impossible dream, yet the government of West Germany pursues it with the same dogged determination that helped to make this remarkable country postwar Europe's most successful state. "The awareness of the nation's unity is as keen as ever, and the will to preserve it unbroken," stated West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to his East German counterpart, General Secretary Erich Honecker, during the historic September visit to the Federal Republic. "The preamble of our Basic Law is not negotiable," Kohl lectured his guest. "It calls for the entire German people to achieve in free self-determination the unity and freedom of Germany."
The issue of reunification--the "German question" in diplomatic circles--is one that few outside Bonn expect ever to b...
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...l's conservative party. Bonn knew that the trappings surrounding the official visit would, in everything but name, signal the diplomatic equality of the GDR and the Federal Republic. But over 40 years of dreaming and planning for some kind of reunification will not be easily abandoned. "All that can be said about the 'German question,'" says one weary official in Bonn, "is that it remains." vbcrlf
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