ABSTRACT
A German anthropologist has demonstrated that wolves are kinder to other wolves than human beings are towards other human beings. The French had an even worse enemy than the Germans – the British. They fought the British in the Hundred Years' War from 1337 to 1453, and for about a thousand years war between France and England was intermittent. There are always crises between countries, but friendly developments are seldom featured in the newspapers. One has been the interest in the East which has changed and enriched the lives of people in the West. As a result of the war, the Japanese lost people, homes, factories, farms, whatever of value they owned, but when it was over they received some compensating gifts. The postwar period was also a golden age of Japanese literature. Writers who had been unable to publish during the war years now wrote freely.
