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...Ralph T. Reed hopefully predicted last week as he landed in Manhattan after a two-month European tour. Because of the food shortage England still frowns on tourists but most of the Continent had the welcome mat out. Last week the U.S. Army was even considering letting tourists into Bavaria to help the Germans get some dollar credits. Next year there will be a good bit of transportation available on planes (an estimated 100,000 seats) and ships (200,000). The big catch was to get the U.S. Department of State to lift the ban on tourists. But American Express...
Seventy-five percent of the Germans' families live in a group of apartment houses at Landshut, Bavaria, where they are fed twice as well as the Germans outside. Chief complaint of the German scientists is the slowness of their mail (six weeks from Germany) and the absence of their families. As soon as possible, the Army promises, families will be brought over. The first batch sailed last week. The Germans see a new hope in that fact. Some day, they have been told, they may have a chance to become U.S. citizens. The fact that the U.S. is bringing...
Planned Economy in Bavaria...
...Niebuhr [TIME, Oct. 21] states that Military Government vetoed a provision in the Bavarian constitution calling for a planning commission, "on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy." The proposal was not for a planning commission but for a planned economy within Bavaria. The Germans were told by Military Government that the question of planned economy or free enterprise was for them to decide, but that Bavaria was too small to have a planned economy all by itself regardless of the other parts of Germany. Nothing was said about a planned economy being incompatible with democracy. Since...
...fact is that had Russian terror not so completely discredited Communism, our stupidities would long since have discredited democracy. For example, in Bavaria the Socialists and Christian Democrats united in asking for the provision of a planning commission in their new constitution. Our military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...