Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
From Douglas Hurd
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
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