Notes

Herr Ernst Lissauer, author of the German war-song Hate, now advises the nation to return to its poets, philosophers, scientists: "Now we have lost our might and our material possessions. There is nothing left but that other Germany, immortal and indestructible with Goethe, Bach and all the big and little prophets which came before and after them." At Hamburg, home of a certain type of sausage, a sausage manufacturer said: "My plant has been besieged day and night by men, women and children seeking work, and I may have to erect a barricade around my place to keep out the people who hope to get employment--and food--in a factory of this kind." The German Government legalized by special decree French and Belgian francs in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was said that this step was taken in order to embroil the French and Belgian francs in the debacle of the mark. Perhaps it was a sincere effort to lighten the task of German printing presses which, in the space of two weeks, printed 308 quadrillions of paper marks.