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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 24, 1981
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ON THE WORLD SCENE
WEST GERMANY:
NEUTRALISM COMBINES WITH ANTI-AMERICANISM TO PRODUCE HEAD
ACHE FOR WASHINGTON Events of the past few weeks show how the dangerous
threads of pacifism, neutralism and anti-Americanism are being woven
together to form a rather ugly garment in West Germany. The conception that
America is the greatest threat to Germany's future--far beyond that of the
Soviet Union--continues to grow in the Federal Republic. This is espe
cially true among young adults who remember neither the Second World War
nor the Cold War of the late 40's and 19SO's, having no personal recol
lections of, say, the Berlin blockade.
During the recent Protestant conference in Hamburg (reported in this column
in a recent Pastor General's Report), students conducting a "peace march"
and carrying such signs as "Rockets Out" and "Peace Without Weapons,"
portrayed Washington as the force behind world tensions and a new arms
race. The cover of Stern, West Germany's largest general interest maga
zine, showed an American nuclear missile piercing the heart of a dove of
peace.
The general view of Germany's powerful and growing left is that the United
States, by pressing for new nuclear weapons for NATO, would only provoke an
otherwise peaceful Soviet Union into a bellicose posture.
Former West
German chancellor Willy Brandt typifies this distrust-the-Americans
believe-the-Russians approach. In early July, Brandt went to Moscow where
he received a warm reception (naturally) from Mr. Brezhnev. He heard the
Soviet president reissue, with a slight modification, the Russian position
on new nuclear weapons for Western Europe: The Soviets would stop adding to
(not pull back on) the array of 160-odd triple-warheaded, city-flattening