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...year's first snow fell into white robes for the Alps, grey slush for Munich streets. In Marburg an optimistic apple tree bloomed. In the whole land, the tree was perhaps the most optimistic note...
...years; she had been one of the 10,000,000 Germans who fled the eastern lands now occupied by Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia. "How would I be able to care for the child?" she asked; "I sleep every night in a railroad station." A 17-year-old Munich boy killed his mother because she would not give him money for the movies; for two weeks he slept beside the corpse. A Berlin entrepreneur rented coffins for burials at 40 marks for five hours...
That excursion ended with Munich and with Welles joining TIME's editorial staff in 1939. This time he headed first for Moscow and the Foreign Ministers Conference. Under the occasion's relaxed censorship and heightened hospitality Welles found that, with such exceptions as picture-taking in Red Square, he could move about with comparative freedom-and did so. He visited markets (where potatoes were selling for 56 cents a pound) and department stores (where "a pair of shoes was priced at $125"), dropped in on a musicale which turned out to be Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano with...
...centered smugness. German after German told me solemnly that Hitler's only mistake lay in trying to do the right things the wrong way. They actually believe that nobody ever suffered as they have suffered. They want to tell their troubles and, like a girl I met in Munich, are not interested in hearing the troubles of others. This girl had lamented at length over Munich's overcrowding...
...Never before was black terror so openly insolent in the U.S. Everything honest and brave is exiled or put in prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem...