For a brief span of years in the 9th century, through a combination of armed might and wisdom, the Prankish King Charlemagne succeeded in establishing a measure of unity in war-torn Europe. Last week, 1,142 years after Charlemagne's burial in Aix la-Chapelle (the German city of Aachen), Sir Winston Churchill journeyed to Aachen to accept its Charlemagne Prize* for his own efforts to promote European understanding.
At 81, Britain's great wartime leader looked a figure who already belongs to history. In contrast, Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, only a year younger, seemed almost youthful as he bustled about, looking solicitously to the welfare...
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