GERMANY: Not Yet

The Danziger Vorposten wrote with remarkable frankness: "It is stupid and even criminal to put into words what people are thinking in every house, tramway and street." Many Germans are weary, have the jitters. But their sense of discipline and their driving dread of defeat largely offset their fatigue.

Food. The average German's diet is still sufficient but extremely frugal. Lack of stores and salesclerks makes shopping ever more difficult. Housewives and workers (many are both) are urged to trudge twice to the shops, leaving their orders (written, of course, on Government-prescribed...

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