Mitterand's Warning to Thatcher on United Germany

The FT reports that secret British Government documents to be published today reveal that François Mitterrand privately warned Margaret Thatcher that a reunited Germany might "make even more ground than had Hitler", and that Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.

But as with all leaders, she went along with it anyway.

The current lot are just a whole lot more spineless, is all