Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1947 — Page 13

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: i Time Won't Exhaust .

{In the 'Vaterland" .

Stubborn Prussian Patience Dominates

Citizen Who Waits for Allies to Split ,

By NAT BARROWS, Times Foreign Correspondent i BERLIN, Aug. 29.—Another day amid the rubble drags its weary | length along and Karl, a minor office clerk who, of course, was never '} a Nazi, cycles home to his partially wrecked flat in Moabit. j What, then, does this average German do for amusement and recreation? After his meager supper of potato soup, bread, a tiny bit of meat and something he calls coffee, Karl works in the community vegetable garden in the nearby — . - tiergarten. * sector, wonders with the regiment- | He and his neighbors long ago de- ed mentality of the Prussian. if; aft-

‘nuded Berlin's famous Forest park’ all, he wouldn't be better off livlof every single ... : {ing in the Russian sector.

DAY, AUG. 29, 1947

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Karl would lke {to putter about his house, patch-

kind of an index to the economic vl | situation, : { Mr. Barrows It's true, as Karl himself well ing more securely knows, that few Berliners have the cracks left when the American any spare houbehold goods or fam. bombers came by day and the Brit- jy jewelry left to: sell to amplify ish by night. | their scanty rations A Few Cigarets | He has a few little treasures left But building material continues which he “liberated” - during the in such short supply that he can- good days of German conquest in not get what he needs without go- Paris but these he is hoarding careing to the “schieber,” or black fully in case next winter falls as marketeers. bitterly as last, He ‘hasn't enough accumulated It will be a hard winter, of course,

'} cigarets to trade there, nor, as a isi dhasl Ba russian Hom : second choice, enough German 8 slans. '

marks required for the fantastic his creed, need be only a difficult

he of full. [tree, but he man- © Busy ‘Human Market’ hd boiling ages to find | Homeward bound up the Kurle prices! enough chips to \f. fuerstendamm, Karl sees that the "til 8 p. m. ee fill his knapsack. “human market” is operating ac- | Noon | That haul of §& tively this evening. Poultry Reg |] wood will be add- These self-styled “business girls” Be ~. |]/ed to Karl's hoard § seem to be walking the streets in . $19.96 || against the comStreet . i ¥ increasing numbers and this, Karl 0 Values | ing winter. tells himself, ought to give some |

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