How It Was

From Stockholm last week New York Times Correspondent George Axelsson, just out of Germany, gave the best and newest slant on much-discussed conditions inside Germany:

Germans who were inclined to criticize the Nazi campaign in Russia had been reminded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that it was useless to rebel against a dive-bomber. Most Berliners seemed heavily apathetic to what was called "the new type of winter warfare in Russia," to Hitler's declaration of war against the U.S., to Japan's Far Eastern successes.

Blind, legless or armless veterans of the Russian Front are numerous on Berlin streets. So are women in mourning. In some sections imported foreign laborers outnumber the natives. Italian and French waiters are common in restaurants. Diners who once obeyed instructions and stopped talking when Army communiques were broadcast now keep on conversing.

Store-window displays are often attractive, but the wares are usually not for sale. The great Wertheim department store has become, in range of merchandise, a 10-c- store. Long queues form whenever fruit, tobacco, candy or silk stockings are offered for sale.

Berlin, like the world outside for a month past, has been filled with rumors of a rift between Adolf Hitler and many of his generals, with whispers of purges.

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