The broad-backed Hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood . . .
The Russians, although not usually inclined to be sympathetic with the frailties of man or hippopotamus, have come to share this insight of Poet T. S. Eliot. As a result, the world last week was the richer by one of the rare instances of East-West cooperation in years, and may soon be richer by one baby hippopotamus.
Knautschke, a resident of the Berlin Zoo, is a fine, broad-backed figure of a hippo, but he...
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