ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two parts such as, The first part of this little shake was an interview given to The Spectator by Britain's then secretary for trade and industry, Nicholas Ridley, in which, after lunch, but just one glass of wine, Mr. Ridley talked about the proposed European Monetary Union as "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe" and The second part of this little shake was the publication in The Independent on Sunday and Der Spiegel of a leaked, highly confidential memorandum of a meeting between Mrs. Thatcher and a small group of historians held at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, on March 24, to discuss Germany. Thus author think it is fair to say that if Chancellor Kohl himself had sat in on that meeting, he would have agreed with, or, at the very least, accepted as fair comment, 90 percent of what was said around the Chequers table.
