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...story was being widely quoted and reprinted in the European press. It was a typical TIME story which originated out of a query by TIME'S International and Foreign News editor asking the present state of the postwar political situation in Western Europe's oldest dictatorship. Percy Knauth, one of our most experienced European hands, was dispatched to Portugal to get the facts. Saporiti, who knows Portugal intimately, worked with him. Knauth mailed his voluminous, documented research to New York, and the story was written...
Veteran Percy Knauth, long familiar with the vagaries of European politics, was sent to examine the actual Communist Party organization and work habits in a limited sector. Knauth, impressed by the contrast between French Communist methods and those of communists in other countries he has covered, was surprised to find himself treated like a visiting dignitary by the Communist sector leader...
Wages of Aggression. With such earnest and embittered reflections, Knauth portrays the last spring and summer of Hitler's Germany-the wrecked cities and the ruined lives, the pathetic conquered and still-arrogant unconquered. He cannot forget the "terrible wages of aggressive...
...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...
...ruins of youth and the ruins of Buchenwald-who will clear them up? Answers Knauth: "Our responsibility for the Germans, like theirs and ours for all mankind, will never end. I hope that they and we will have the strength to fulfill the trust that has been imposed upon us all: the peace and welfare of our fellow...