GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain

Three years ago, soldiers from the Volga and the Mississippi, the Thames and the Loire met by the Spree, in the ruins of a harsh, unlovely city situated on the vast plain on the edge of Europe's Slav lands. The city was Berlin. The soldiers brought to it both fear and hope. Since then, fear has grown like weeds amid the debris; hope has been carted off like rubble. Last week from Berlin, TIME Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled this report:

The Price of Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin...

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