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...North Atlantic pact confirmed on paper what most people knew in their hearts: that the world's nations are divided into two massive blocs. Reluctantly, the free nations had turned back from the high hopes of San Francisco to the bitter lesson learned at Munich in 1938. There were some Americans who feared that the pact might seem provocative. But peaceful men have always found it only common prudence to build stockades in the face of danger...
...Michael & the Zoot-Suits. Ash Wednesday Eve I drove through the most devastated streets of Munich, through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues...
More sobersided was Jo Mueller's warning over the separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...
...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...
Postwar World. In Munich, Germany, zoo officials announced that the parrot which shrieks "Heil Hitler!" has been suffering from an inferiority complex since it was joined by one which screams "Buy American...