A long-expected warning signal came out of Germany last week. It came from Germany's roughest, toughest and second largest city, half-ruined Hamburg.
Hamburg's citizens have been normally in the vanguard of trouble. They had rioted during the 1918 Spartacus Putsch and spearheaded the abortive 1923 Communist insurrection. Hamburg once had Germany's largest percentage of Communists, later it went enthusiastically Nazi. Last week Hamburg went to extremes once more.
The British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to...
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