Letters, Mar. 8, 1954

Comeback in the West

Sir:

That was a grand piece on Germany's economic renaissance [TIME, Feb. 15], food for thought for all of us. History is replete with such examples. After the War of 1870, Germany saddled France with a gold indemnity which, it was estimated, would take a full generation to pay. By that time, thought Bismarck, the French would be "Germanicized" . . . And German troops were stationed throughout France until it should be paid. So hated were the German garrisons, that the French went to work with a will−exports flowed...

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