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...presented a blueprint for the future of the Continent as a whole. Will Gorbachev's "common European house" mean political as well as economic integration with the West? Will the Warsaw Pact remain intact? Will the two Germanys reunify? "Before you start taking an old structure down," says Karel Doudera, a Czech expert on German affairs, "it is not a bad idea to have in hand the materials for the new one. But in this case...
Though the U.S. and the Soviet Union might prefer to ignore the issue, Europeans are more visibly concerned. "The whole question," warns Bromke, "could conceivably slip out of everyone's hands but the Germans'." Czechoslovakia's Doudera puts the problem in even starker terms. "All of Germany's neighbors have got to be against reunification," he says. "Once East and West Germany have been unified, what is to stop the Germans from wanting to get back all their old lands in the east, from Pomerania to Silesia and Sudetenland...
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