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They pushed and sweated in the heat, gawked at industrial and agricultural displays, baby shows, flower, dog, cat, cattle and horse shows, and at a bulletproof Mercédès-Benz limousine billed as "Hitler's Car." Then they trudged on to look at the latest developments in trains and television. They walked for miles-from a well-advertised Art Gallery nude to the Men's Tea-Making Contest...
...which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster-e.g., his report of a conversation he overheard between a couple of dreamy German lovers. "They discussed unrealistically how they would spend their honeymoon. They said they would get a Mercedes-Benz and travel. . . . What was extraordinary about this conversation was that . . . it was without the slightest shadow of guilt...
...Imperial appearance highlighted a day of strange contrasts. In the morning Hirohito, in an ancient Shinto ceremony at the palace shrine, reported the promulgation to the souls of his ancestors. Later he drove (in a handsome, black Mercedes-Benz with maroon trim) to the Diet to read his Imperial Rescript in high-pitched, colloquial Japanese. At the palace celebration, Hirohito emerged in an open horse-drawn carriage...
...other poor possessions of the masses of poor Germans. In twelve months they took more than half of their zone's current industrial production as reparations. Americans took things too, but what they did was illegal and what they took was mostly luxury articles like Crown jewels, Mercedes-Benz cars, yachts. After a year most Germans felt under the British and Americans they could eventually work back to a normal life, and that under the Russians they could...
...sorry steed but in a Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...