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...said to have ordered the Guernica job as practice and demonstration for his Luftwaffe, was ignominiously dead last week, his ashes scattered to the four winds. But the man for whom Goring did the job-Francisco Franco-was very much alive. Moreover, Guernica had been completely rebuilt. In gratitude, the citizens of Guernica last week honored Franco with the "freedom of the borough...
Everywhere they saw young Germans, eager to rebuild, struggling against a mountain of wreckage, physical and spiritual, left by the Nazis. At the partially rebuilt Technische Hochschule at Darmstadt, students took lecture notes on their knees because there were no desks; many spent their vacations last summer recovering laboratory equipment from the rubble. Nazi book-burnings and Allied bombs had combined to decimate the textbook supply; at Frankfurt alone, half a million books were lost during raids. The circulating library of the University of Munich is in one small basement room...
...depression dried up the Ayres fortune. Lula went to work on a sugar plantation, lived with Negro and mulatto field hands, learned their games and dances, studied their primitive art and pottery making. He remained with them after his father had rebuilt his fortune. When he came out of the sugar lands in 1944, there were few traces left of the fashionable illustrator. Ayres had acquired artistic size...
Russia is so obviously insincere, so plainly not playing the game with U.N. that I want to see her forced to back down, even at risk of war in the near future. I should like to see our military establishment rebuilt at once to show that there is a limit to what we will take and that that limit is not much beyond where we are right...
...help to archeology. Bombs, shells and fires wrecked many European cities, sweeping modern structures from the ancient remains beneath. British diggers, of course, pounced on blitzed east London, site of Roman Londinium. So far, they have found little, but they are excavating furiously-before the stone jungle of the rebuilt city swallows their opportunity...