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I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.
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Adenauer's remarks on an Associated Press interview (5 October 1945)

 

Konrad Adenauer

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And on that grave where English oak and holly
And laurel wreaths entwine,
Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly,
This spray of Western pine!

 

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