GERMANY: Moral Cement

When France crumbled, amateur tacticians who had been doping the war by counting airplanes, calipering tank armor and timing inundations awoke with a nasty start to the realization that morale is more than a mere word in patriotic orations, that morale is often the simple and terrible difference between victory and defeat. They remembered that lesson as they breathlessly watched bombed Britain, weighed its morale, found it good.

Last week their attention was abruptly called to Berlin by three significant symptoms:

1) The first of a new batch of 75 trainloads of Berlin...

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