With all that has been written about conditions in Germany
some new incident or anecdote is always throwing new light on it. An economist who has been lecturing in the British Zone tells me that of all the universities he visited only one has its buildings standing ; students are practically without books, and quite without paper to make notes or write theses on ; the electric light often fails com- pletely about 4.3o, and that means the end of reading for that day, for there are no candles to make shift with. That is how the univer- sities are carrying on. The report of a delegation of the British Churches which visited the British Zone in the autumn paints much the same picture in the religious world—lack of buildings, lack of heating, lack of books, lack of paper for periodicals—lack, in short, of practically all the external conditions of organisation and fellow- ship. In addition the de-nazification process, in the delegation's view, is having disastrous results in prolonging uncertainty, fear and sus- picion. To check this, and at the same time to accelerate the return of war-prisoners, would immensely improve the general outlook.
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