Word: petersberger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER...
...spirit that Schumacher symbolizes, more than the particular program he advocates, that catches the imagination of a nation that still dreams of Siegfried, finds it hard to learn from past errors and even harder to understand democracy. The spirit hovers constantly over the negotiators at Petersberg, reminding them, as they struggle for the Germans' help in solving "the Russian problem," that the old and dangerous "German problem" is itself still very much alive...
Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle with the Summer School Faculty, will provide a lecture commentary. He discovered the Hartmann pictures which Moussorgsky saw in St. Petersberg 75 years ago, after they had been considered lost for several years...
...West Europe's defense. Acting for NATO, the Allied High Commissioners in Germany-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick and France's Andre Francois-Poncet-quickly conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After a five-hour meeting in the Petersberg, the conferees agreed 1) to discuss a new "political basis" for relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe's defense. The allies seemed ready for a bargain...