Stephen Kinzer,recent York Times
Only weeks before the final border controls between Germany and the Netherlands are to be lifted, Chancellor Helmut Kohl came to The Hague for a private meeting with approximately 30 Dutch politicians, and intellectuals and business leaders. Participants were sworn to silence and not even the topic of the discussion was announced,but it might gain been "Love Thy Neighbor." Mr. Kohl had come to discuss ways of confronting deep anti-German sentiment in the Netherlands. It is one of Western Europe's most enduring prejudices, and with the 50th anniversary of the close of World War II approaching, or political...
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