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Frankfurt is windowless, roofless, and jammed to the bombed-out rafters. It has almost no paper or pencils, let alone books. Forewarned, the "little University's" faculty shipped provisions ahead (among the items: a Friden calculating machine, thousands of frames of microfilm, the poetry of W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot...
...mission's appropriation. Last week, outside the mission's clinics, stinking, pitiful yaws victims still lined up each morning by the thousands. Some of them crawled miserably on their haunches, because their legs had been eaten away. Some had no faces left, only teeth protruding from lipless, roofless jaws...
Beer gardens were going full swing; here & there a brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians...
...UNRRA's roofless house were still ten hungry countries-and nearly one million D.P.s of 55 nations. The D.P.s were UNRRA's most urgent item of unfinished business. Less than 10% would be repatriated by 1947. About 97,000 were Jews, most of whom did not want to go back to the lands from which terror had driven them; many non-Jews were equally reluctant to go home, either because they feared political persecution, or simply because many knew that they would eat better inside D.P. camps than outside. The incredible fact was that virtually no plans...
LaGuardia was not to blame for UNRRA's end; that had been scheduled months ago. Nor was he responsible for the lack of planning by other agencies. Last week, in fact, he made a moving plea on behalf of those who live in the "roofless house...