For the second time in 33 years, the U.S., Great Britain and France this week made peace with their defeated enemy, Germany. Flags flew in the German capital and Chancellor Adenauer proclaimed a holiday for the nation's schoolchildren as the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, France, the U.S. and West Germany put their pens (each used his own) to the "Convention of Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic of Germany."
The celebration, though anything but spontaneous, stood in sharp contrast to the bitterness of Adenauer's predecessors in the Weimar Republic on that day in June 1919 when...
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