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Myth has it that Hercules once fought an unspeakably fearsome creature named Hydra, who had the disconcerting ability to sprout two-heads for every one he lost. Old stuff, you may say, but for all its antiquity it is often reenacted even in these unheroic days...
...papers. In a country in transition, the agencies of government are split and scattered. Besides half a dozen occupation headquarters, there are the German government at Bonn, special agencies like the Allied Security Board at Coblenz, various provincial governments, and the separate officials at Berlin. Gibbs describes Germany as hydra-like, with "the political head at Bonn, the cultural head at Munich, the indus trial head at Diissel-dorf, and the traditional head at Berlin." The bureau is also responsible for news from Austria and Yugoslavia. Just as Berlin serves as the listening post for Poland and East Germany...
...also emphasize . . . that the fundamental virtues of charity and love of neighbor ... in this spiritually rudderless era still are a more powerful influence for world peace and unity than the strictly negative Hoover Plan or a revitalized Fortress Europe, or an all-out atom bomb attack on the hydra-headed monster of Communism...
England is described in later issues as "unrecognizably neurotic Britain, disloyal to the West" and "uncertain friend clawing at a lost liberty of action, and repeating the mentality of Munich." France is the land where "isms in painting grow like hydra heads from the withering body of dollar greed and frustration." The United Nations is depicted as "a typically frivolous 'liberal' improvisation, a pretentious and. . . dangerous instrumentality of world order...
...with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...