“…The general symbolism, which Austria played in this, remained little recognized in many places however. 35 In the later memoirs of US President George Bush, Mock is not even mentioned, and even his close companion within the EDU, Helmut Kohl, did not regard this act as part of a courageous all-Austrian European policy. In the West German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the cutting of the barbed wire and the Austrian attitude throughout the year were only praised as "showing solidarity and being helpful."…”