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From the Berlin Beal—

In Germany ~~ Few Foresaw Economic, Social Upheavals fo Follow 1900

50 Years After

By DAVID M, NICHOL, Times Foreign Correspondent . _

* BERLIN, Dec. 31—Fifty years ago tonight a huge erowd gathered in the square before the: towering twin].

spires of Cologne Cathedral. They waited in hushed expectancy “of a giant bell; the largest in the world, which had been cast from captured French cannon, and was called “The Kaiser." As its deep tolling rolled = through the Rhineland an? nouncing the birth of the 20th century there could have been few doubting minds amofig the as-

sembled throng. The bell itself was a symbol that all was well

generation later already ‘a mighty leader, i For both of these and for their present locked struggle, Germany shares a large responsibility, as well as the unhappy. distinction of supplying them their present

meeting. place,

in the world. raed rn , tablished as a - NTR 1 er, Is Armies had BUT THE CURRENTS which

préduced these changes elsewhere left Germany curiously untouched. Boundaries changed. Red shirts and black shirts fought in the streets. Inflation wiped out the middle classes, By the middle ‘208 the same groups who had backed the kaiser and brought on a War, were at it again; this time without a kaiser. By historical standards Weimer, after World War I, was

proyed “invincible,” Its navy was building. It was in the process of acquiring a colonial empire, Wealth was accumulating in its factories and its banks at rates which no one had thought possible a few years earlier. Ecience and the arts were flourishing. y » " IT WOULD have been a brave soul, and an unheeded one, who prophesied that by 1950, only half way through the century Germany: : Would be wracked repeatedly by revolutions. Would, almost more by stupidity than by design, lay the basis for World War.1, and then lose it Would rise phenomenally from the ashes. Would produce the most twisted and most yicious dictatorship in recorded history. Would drive out and extinguish many of the very elements which contributed to its acknowledged tness. Would engulf the world a second time, plan and design, in the greatest’ war of all times, and, Jose it in. the most abject and utter collappe that has ever oc:

hardly deserving of the name,

ceeded in welding. all the nascent discontents of a groud and touchy nation into a single whole called national socialism. Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933, less than 15 years after Germany's first defeat. This new revolution was brutal and thorough: The torutous madness into which he led Gérmany is too decent to require much recital. Ten vears and millions of lives later Hitler controlled almost all of Europe, The mightiest combined effort In history was necessary to destroy kis evil power, Germary was left a smished (and smoking ruins {n the center

a OL 4 ftricken continent, hich a 4 bp. Heo 1. on the 0 yA Bal : rhuch iy aba do wo Ralf gf Troreatemr a Tew

plagues unless it could be re-

the century, the mont critical bat= 1 =

tleground in a new struggle for the soul of mankind and the lib--efties of its Individuals. the effort to restore it provided

gon. 8 the first clear indication that the FAR FROM BEING the bul-'g, {ats were embarked. on a policy

wark of sanity and progress .e sh.ir own and not one of co-

< . . . oa OCCUPATION of Germany and

~ wiich the burghers must have ......ion in building and preserv-

“pictured it as they listened to the ing the peace. The Western world cathedral bells in Cologne, Ger could agree only by sacrificing Many has bern ar Sleemer of all its decencies and ideals, which the 20th © tury one of the most it was not prepared to do. ruin ln ary on i In th The course of this struggle will Oe an ring ® determine, more than any Mer _|single factor, what happens to all en at Jum oF Han Pm or us in the second half of the . a dip 120th Century. ” the germs of future disaster, not If Germany.is fo play any but

a destructive-or negative -role-it must snap out of the curious paralysis of will and morals which seems to afflict it In times of

The first Zeppelin was in building and shortly would fly, a mixed blessing certainly for peoples who hadn't learned to live In peace. cris A German scientist . . ww Hamad ax Panck was a ie MEN here knew that the kaiser theory of quantum mechanics, W2% Soing wrong, yet they did With Einstein's theories of re. NOthing to “halt him. They knew Jativity,-1t-madsthe-atom- Bomb. that Weimar was falling, yet they possible. Einstein himself was to stood aside and let HitHT fake work Germ , a0 OVer, \ n Aly dor slmont-20 They watched the plans for a new war, yet did little to interJauve a Saran novelist ere. More millions of them than named Thomas Mann was seeing ever admit it joined eagerly in the things with clearer eyes tha enterprise. Even now, with the most. “Buddenbrooks” the first help or encouragement or stupid book to bring him wide acclaim, lity of any one of the victor pow It has some- ®rs U times been described as the fun- Pt v says ag OM Ger } QILY, 8 er )-song ota disappearing aye. man proverb, “is a gift of God. It : KAISER WILHELM II in 1900 ought not to be abused” might ‘raise his glass to the as- As a caution to everyone, vi sembled ‘royalty of Europe and tors and vanquished alike in Ger say proudly, as he did to celebrate many, it is an excellent slogan or the Crown Prince's coming of : “N, of this frightening 20th Century “My people and my country are grateful for my afforts.” ER But the Kaiser almeady was CoPYrisht showing signs of that indecision : and lack of judgmest which was ~ to end in his overthrow in 1918 and his. death in exile in 1942, almost unnoticed. even by his own Germans who had overrun his

to be turned over to the ants.

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This “merry-go-round” number is one of the features of a a pale and sickly revolution, spectacular new review titled "Middle of the Century” at the Paris nightclub, the Bal Tabarin. Riding mechanized stage props, the Then, out of the beerhalls of chorines go through their routines as the merry-go-round. rises Munich came the man who suc: from the floor. (Photo by NEA-Acme staff correspondent Rene

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TOKYO, Dec. 31—Master of the {greatest ‘empire in the Eastern _ | Hemisphere less than 10 years "ago, Japan faces, at this midcentury mark, a bleak vista of poverty and economic despair, For Japan the first 50 years! were the easiest, The next 50 will be the toughest, "From a primitive, hermetically sealed! country Japan rose to dominate all Asia ‘and become a first-class world power. Then it gambled and lost everything on a single turn of the wheel at Pearl Harbor. Japan's most immediate worry today is how it will defend itself in another war, Its. made-in-MacArthur's - headquarters constitution renounced - war." But there are growing indications that ways will be found to get around

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the anti-war provision and that Japan will somehow be provided| with a “defensive” army. |

. No Ecop, owic Escape _ | Thre appears to be no escape! from Japan's basic econ bin ic plight, however. Some of "Hts i blacker - aspects were underlined [today with the release of a survey jof the country's economic resources by Edward A. Ackerman, {professor of geography at the {University of Chicago. \ | “Japan would be a rich country,

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Paragraphs From Letters by Correspondents

Of The Times Foreign

< He. is the Rt. Rev. Msgr

the Nazis. / Archbishop Vishinsky's name is expeeted to be on

will new year. and his blunt attack ‘terialism. Although Andre! Vishinsky {does not like to be reminded of it,

be appointed early in the He iz a stout patriot, recent pastorate letter on Soviet ma-

he is a first céusin of the future Two years is set as the tin needed for adequate rearming and training agreements,

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PRESIDENT Enrique Gonzalez | Videla of Chile is preparing another loan appeal to the United

States to offset wild inflation and to Europe as she plans ‘in the low living standards. It will be SPring.

launched as an appeal to save, Chile from

On the Inside

direction. the list of new cardinals who cans, like many Americans, have economic and social distress and believe the United States will help changed their views as a rational ja standard of result of post-war developments. 'appréaching the bare subsistence

ern European countries will train and be armed with weapons oniporting at a 1930-34 level through

Rome for Holy revolution or com- year, repeat her munism. The country’s 5 million visit people have seen few -of his elec- and perhaps go

| for. fewer people” said Prof, |

| adviser. | But unless Japan practices birth {eontrol, he "warned, It faces “death control.” Prof. Ackerman wrote: { “Japan's present population. is 83 million and growing at the rate . {of more than one million annually. “In the light of .an analysis of

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THERE is another Vishingxy who is following a com- its resources tire Japan of the pletely different line than his Soviet cousin.

next three decades appears likely “sto have one of two aspects if its

1 . Francis Vishinsky, primate population, conjipyes, to Eras. sn ut fens ay traks dia tant. x sof-Peland, ewshbishop «of Positkn ara Wid#io, an HOR TRAM Trond, Wid fiea”so much trouble

-J AQT HMTion. af fo he EF NY EIRY of Hwng equivalent to that of. 1930-34 if foreign financial as- . gr — . sistance is continued indefinitely. now that the move 1s in the other, “TWO--It may be. self-support-Many Latin Ameri- ing but with internal political,

living gradually

Jevel.

. | FOR THE FIRST time West | “Either of those alternatives ‘seems more likely than that

Japan will make itself self-sup-

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United States standards. There-|foreign trade and improved refore units will be interchangéable. sources utilization.” hicago Daily Ne

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EVITA PERON will stay far »

away from British soil if she goes ho Me hanic Dies Chanic,

Served in Artillery | | With Truman

“Raymond (Casey) Lanham, who

he will make

to . Spain

. to Portugal. lon promises acted on... | pessetrtamntic « = = To ent is so {Speedway greats as the late “Wild IT IS widely rumored in Lon- gi rong against iBill” Cumming and Babe Stapp, don that Paul Hoffman will re- Argentina _ for {was buried yesterday in Washing-| sigu his -job as Marshall Plan pouting meat [ton ‘Park after rites in the Jordan AANA a toF next June with and grain prices [Pugeral Home, reo Jive tn 165% rumans ess. hat Evita's ad- | r. Lanham, who live by ng.... A special ua say a trip N. Délaware St. died Thursday in beam night sight 10 London would: Mrs. Peron yeierans Hospital, Cold Spring made from a {be disastrous. Road, after an iliné&&s of eight

German pattern is being fitted to heavy tanks of the Red army . « Among the things the Chi nése Communists ' need most: Copper. ral road equipment,

Mr. Hoffman

ery, boiler tubes, structural steel

cotton, oil and gasoline, . - . oS YRIA is in the market for Brithal jet fighters and PBritish tanks .\. . Japanese Prime Minis ter Yoshida is now saying what's been on hi® mind all.along

hideaway In The Netherlands, WELLINGTON, N. Z. Dec. 31 Pirst he talked about walking At the turn of the century thege, The: Moa the New Zealand out of the peace was no such thing as a Communist wingless bird believed to have conference if

“party ‘member although thé In-"\,.n extinct for 800 vears aspiration for communism Was 10 on exist. ’ be drawn subsequently from an py. . obscure German writer named Karl Marx who died in 1883 Even social Democrats could be dismissed. They, admittedly, were “troublesome” but never could be more. Weren't they “unbelievers,” and “godless?” .

i= the belief of land Museum

a large bird which may

He says traces. o

wilderness vegions Indications are- that . =» may be smaller than the gian MOAS, which were about 18 fee

WORLD WAR 1 was a time of . high; according tn the naturalist

toppling monarchies. and start. Hug new ‘developments. Two of’ ET » these were to fix the course of the ) J H “second half of the 20th Century Take Your Choice in ways which can't yet be fore-| SYDNEY. Australia) Dec. 31 seen clearly. | — Bus offtcials here hope One was the establishing of the Soviet Union, sprawling thén over A pixth of the earth, and naw “wrong bus doors : - On the door which iets riders out safely on the sidewalk, a sign reads “Correct Side.” The other door, which opens to .the trafic side, is marked 'Sulcide.”

The second was the appearance on the world scene of the United States, fumbling and reluctant and wary of its own destiny, yet a——

may

Dr. J. Teviotdale, eurator of the South. J he a Mea have been found recently in

they've found the way tiny cure. Sydneyites from getting out the |

Japan doesn’t Hike thé terms. Now he wants hack the Kuriles FRyukyus and Formosa Oh, brother.

. wu ~ ANTI SEMIT18M gles hard in Germany. A Berlin newspaper which. published

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Yoshida pietures of —the injured lone survivor of the Jewish children whose aircraft

crashed near Oslo received severfal viciously German readers no ! ” » » ! SPRESIDENT TRUMAN'S point four proposals for helping develop (backward areas have proved a dud in Latin American countries

They don’t want technical advisers and American Investments nearly so much as they want

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ISM in Latin ica is only a pale shadow of what it was five - years ‘ago when

ganda magazines had whale of a job popularizing our ‘Rallant. red allies” Communists have been jailed deported and driven underground

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Romanians Weed Out ‘Uncertain’ Officers

Yimes Fureigh Serviee PARIS, Dec. 31-<Every 10 days there is a new esplonage trial in the Romanian Capital of Bucharest. La . The “traitors” are army of. ficers, accused of being in the pay of the capitalist powers, | Bach trial ends with four or | five death and a dozen life sen-

to purge the army of .tha not ‘sure elements.

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‘in integration of European defense

critical letters from’

loans snd a give-away ‘program Amer]

United States government propa-! done a’

. ‘ months. He was 53. . U. S.. MILITARY believes con-. Born in Independence, No ‘home of President Truman, r. Sdevatile-progress 3ias-heqs made Lanham was the son of the late Frank Lanham who went to against Russia under the Norfh pfissouri® from Kentucky in a Atlantic treaty and the U.S. Re- covered wagon at the age of 7. arming Act. Russia, they say,| Mr. Lanham served in the 129th has the will but not the ability to|Field Artillery during World War fight. They're convinced Russia!l, although in a different batwill not attack Yugoslavia be-/tery than Mr. Truman. He also cause of stronger western de- served with the President in the Mexican Border Incident.

fenses, x = = Was a Wilson Guard GERMAN “COMMUNISTS are During his 18 fnonths service

campaigning = viciously dis- overséas in the fifst-war, he was credit the U.S. uniform. For a Selected as a member of the long time it has been “persons in 8uard of honor for the late Pres-

American uniform’ who are held ident Woodrow Wilson in the responsible by Eastern German peace conferences at Paris authorities for.every kind of vio Mr. Lanham had lived in Inlence } dianapolis 14 years and was a

“discovery”? is an member of the Episcopal Church. operating in Berlin An expert mechanic, Mr. Lanand made deserters and ham managed several automobile discharged gangsters.” The So- service shops here following his viet army newspaper says smug- career as a riding mechanic at 2 ‘Most of them come from the Speedway in the early 30's. Chicago.’ Associated for many years with Qldsmobile service, he was last PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S Jan- employed as manager of the servuary message jto_ Congress will ‘ce shop: of O. A. Birr Motors, ask for more ‘taxes, maybe as Inc. much as $7 million, will really put! Surviving are his wife, Beatrice; on the heat for his compulsory three sisters, Mrs. H.' D McDon"health insurance, and will again ald, Independence; Mrs. R. W demand a big increase in unem- Cox, Detroit, and Mrs. I. V. Laployment insurance benefits, Rue, Houston, Tex, and five a #8 a» brothers, Elmer 8. John R.. Paul REPORTS that GéA. MacAr- 20d Marion Lanham, Indepen thur is so at odds with the ~e- dence, and Charles H. Lanham, fense Department here that he is considering his resignation from

the Tokyo job Judith Coplon Requests

are the bunk. . Theyre getting Order for New Trial WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UP)

Their latest armed band up of

along okay. | oh 3 n i» °d —Judith Coplon, ex’- government ates is perfect- ) } We win ie ly willing to girl who was. .chnvicted of spying lend-lease atomic fOr Russia, appealed to’the Subombs to. Allies! preme Court for a new trial to in: the event of day, - . war but will Her lawyer, Arthibald Palmer, never give them said her conviction was based on the secrets of evidence gained through .wirei bomb eontents tapping. Such evidence is by law Gen Mae Arthur and-constructian, not ‘admissable in federal courts

{| Aekerman, former Jap technical!fighting with ‘Tito's partisans: |

|hands and stormed about, beating |

| , | the Russians. | {rode..as a mechanPWith suchiThey heiped-us«<the ed To en-| ¥

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~~ Most of Them Want U.S. Aid - | - But Don't Want Military Goods By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent |republic’'s foreign “show cases” DUBROVNIK, Yugoslavia, Dec. 31—What do you|are shortly going to don an “austhink of capitalist United States helping your country—| President Quirino's economy Communist Yugoslavia? a BE already under way in his To sample locdl red-head : cabinet and various government Sr ple: loc red-heads on the puzzle I attended a a. Daa} tnded 10 his » P. dance in this town. The band was playing “Slow diplomatic family. SL Boat to China” when (with my interpreter) I walked into] All phases of official and even the Gradskoj Kafani hard b personal life in Philippine foreign the Adrigti i AFC BY sate. Capitalism ‘can live’ with|service Will feel the sharp edge of atic Sea. ‘our kind of communism. We have the economy ax. Male and female’ Commu- the’ sympathy of all the peoples! - A directive issued by Foreign nists were sitting at Mttle tables: - + Russians as well as Ameri Undersecretary Felino Neri orders drinking rakija (beer)--or jig- cans. wal envoys to curtail travel expenses, ging, western style. ‘This was a Comniunists with their: parrot-/level off radiogram tolls and big to-do . . . the annual dance Prattle, I swear, are the world's|freight charges, and cut down purof the Third “Co ngress - of the most wearisome bores. They all chases of supplies and equipment, Dubrovnik ‘Communist Council. speak In Hogans. Uses of Pouches Limited d the dance just as a hand-| . Only “very urgent matters” may First customer my interpreterigome officer at: the next table/be handled by radiogram. Use of nailed was a dark-eyed man with|kissed His girl on the shoulder|diplomatic pouches will be limited a chest like the back of a mOrTis/then passed out neatly, folding histo light “freight, such as comchair . .. a champ water poloihead on the table like a deceased munications, letters and endorseplayer. | shicken. ments.” \ “Ahy aid for us is good aid," But I was not rid of it yet! A! Heavier matters, like consular he said, coughing over my Yan-/youngster who pen-pushes in a invoices and bulky reports, says kee cigaret which always seems veterans’ committee insisted on Mr. Neri, must be transmitted by too strong for these people. {guiding us home. On - saying/ordinary mail. ’ “As long as it is not military good-night he stated flatly: | No more lush days for this naaid, We don't even dare think| “Do not worry about the Peo-|tional's representatives abroad about a war . , .'keép'your tanks.” [ple’s Republic of Yugoslavia. Our who are under order to end all When the water polo player atomic bomb is in our hearts . . . “services not absolutely neces« wandered -off a bingo game be- our faith is our unsmashable de- sary” to the exercise of their gan (or something like bingo)./fense against fascism.” (Yawn!) !duties, The chief prize was a live Dig. je —— — o Funds raised this night benefited lads and lassies shot up while

» » : ow ” ¥ MY NEXT subject ‘was a girl| Nn with a boyish bob and a skirt that | 3 would have been short enough for §

Clara Bow when she was the . N

holidays for deserving workers. “We do not want anything from | thé United States .for nothing,” she sald. “We will pay with our| raw material .. . . copper ahd lead.

sizzling “It” girl of the Terrific!

Twenties. She labors in a local OES : 3 I TR A

hotel bureau, booking seaside nl

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phe opsytpmovse pm ion LIVI § materials. If the Russians come! we know how to fight them—as| guerrillas.” { A blond lad with a missing hand-—a mining student-—was, now produced. He said: “I don’t

us , ., . and we don’t want your help. Anything you might give us would help Russian propaganda. Keep your gold!” x When I told him that the United States had already buttered Tito with $20 million and credits to build a steel plant he snapped: “Moscow propaganda!” (Oh, well J. ; The jazz-jumpers now quit and a local snake dance—the kolo— began. Boys and girls joined!

their feet on the dance floor lke! Congo natives on a hysterical! toot. . { The merchant seaman speak-| ing had to shriek slightly to make himself heard. “I don't like it,” he worried, “unless it can be on a! commercial basis, We had bad experience with

slave us.” ® = = ' | THE KOLO quieted .and halt the hall wailed a chant . . . “Tito has taken our meal and shaken! it into good bread ... Tito has! enftamed our spirits .. . to Tito! we owe all , ,. Tio is our little: white flower” (Imagine a bunch of statesiders during a dance shouting: “Truman has saved us... bless Harry ++ . our precious American rose.” When the chanters shuttered, a lady with a fur “scarf that was nifty when, Herbert Hoover saw two chickens in every deep freeze pounded my table and said: “We want to receive nothing hut civilian goods from the United States. And no strings attached! Stalin will never dare stab wus. Your investments here will be

Romania Army. Strength } ~~: Violates Peace Treaty |

Times Forcien Service PARIS, Dec. 31 — The 1048-50 military class was called to the colors in Romania more than a fortnight ago. This brings the number. of troops under arms in that country to 356,000. Under the peace treaty Romania: is allowed an army of only 133.000.

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The chiefs have revised that Formos: Communists consequence. Arthur, comm been quoted b men as sayi breach the w line in the fa Secretary o son will be gi to discuss tt foreign police Senate Fore mittee, Chairman Tex.) said th to hear Mr, convenient fo fent. for us.”

ver-age Britain for 1 hava) and air posses ~ Hefiiisphere, MacArt Formos TOKYO, J: Douglas Mac. posed.to Ame Communist - ( the U, 8. s steps to against _ formed quart ese sour hur undo is determine Joint Chiefs visit the F February. The visitor their trip for on China poli Omar N. Br "the Joint CI other top U. It was un MacArthur is his views in feels that any make on Forr as criticism man's policie: However, | Gen. MacArt Jowing points "ONE: Not portant than nism in Asia in Europe, TWO: For by nen-Comp falls to the ( become a ¢ America's Fa THREE: should not re Communist r

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