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France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman visited Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the West German Federal Republic at Bonn last week. The two men talked in secret-"unter vier Augen" (under four eyes)-as Lorrainer Schuman, a former German soldier...
Along with the doves, there was a great program for furbishing up the state buildings, the Russian embassy, the swank Bristol hotel; scaffolds lined the buildings on Unter den Linden...
First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
...Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent it fluttering to the street...
...potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want...