The Two Germanys - TROUBLE BREWING IN THE HEART OF EUROPE - Gene H Hogberg - April 1979

Gene H Hogberg

The cornerstone of post - World War II Europe has been the division of Germany into two states, one allied with the United States and the other with the Soviet Union. This unnatural arrangement now in its 30th year-is under its greatest strain ever. How long will it be before the map of Germany - and all of Europe - is redrawn, with enormous consequences for the entire world? West Germany came of full age during the first week of January 1979. The occasion was the Western summit meeting held on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Similar meetings in the past had revolved around the "Big Three" of the Atlantic world: the United States, Great Britain and France. This time - and for the first time there was a fourth and equal member - the Federal Republic of Germany. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library