The Logic of Guilt

There is a certain logic about the attitude of Herr Egon Bahr, the party manager of the Social Democrats (SPD) of West Germany, which I have had occasion to write about before in this space. Herr Bahr, if I am not traducing him, was traumatized by the building of the Berlin Wall on that ghastly night of August 12, 1961.

He waited and he waited, as so many others did, for the American response which, surely, would come now, or never come at all.