Ils ne passeront pas

摘要

On december 7th 1835 the Adler, a steam engine built by a British father and son, George and Robert Stephenson, puffed its way between Nuremberg and Furth in Bavaria, marking the birth of the German railway system. On October 19th, a century and three-quarters later, the Germans repaid the compliment. Deutsche Bahn's sleek high-speed train, the ice 3, slid into London's St Pancras station, the first German train to pass through the Channel tunnel, which links Britain to continental Europe.