Portents?

GERMANY

Although no aircraft has yet flown from Berlin to Manhattan, German toy makers released last week for the Christmas trade a mimic airplane painted in bright letters BERLIN-NEW YORK.

Observers, viewing the Christmas ware displayed last week, noted a sharp revival in the popularity of military toys. (In the lean, sorrowful years just after the World War, few Germans had the heart to give their children even dummy weapons of destruction.)