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Many of the wives have part-time jobs to add to their husbands' G.I. allowance of $75 a month (single men get $50). The college tries to keep them all entertained by letting them play squash in the men's gym, join in music, stage and handicraft groups. Next step: special classes for the wives...
Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35? daily, skilled workers 50?. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans...
...Then new fields flowered in old Europe. Bombed towns were rebuilt. Trade and handicraft revived. . . . Culture and art arose which caused the surrounding world to gape with admiration...
...urged German soldiers to go home and join workers and farmers in throwing out the Nazis. Then Germans were to build a strong, independent Germany, which would guarantee "freedom of speech, press, organization, conscience and religious beliefs." Most significant, postwar Germany was to have "freedom of economy, trade and handicraft; the guaranteed right to labor and to lawfully acquired property . . . restoration of property to its lawful owners...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...