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Hate & Hunger. The city fathers of Tegelen, Holland, considered this spring of 1946, decided that it was not a season for rejoicing; they abolished the annual spring carnival. At Berchtesgaden, a crocus was pushing up through the ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light were weeds of old hatred; in Vienna, where a Jewish soccer team played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes...
...their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner's ration: 2,750 to 3,000 calories) and all sorts of extras, coal production was growing. The Dutch incentive system, said Xenia Field, was "a carrot, but a highly desirable carrot...
...give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover in international affairs...
...From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief of war-ravaged countries. General budget for 1946: $4,000,000. Biggest contributors: U. S. Lutherans...
Last week La Piaf left France to tour the cabarets of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Next autumn she hopes to come...