Everybody in Berlin is hunting for new quarters, be it for his home, his office or his in-laws and everybody is frantically worried about the housing problem. Four million Berliners first liked the idea of their Fuehrec who promised to turn the city into the most imposing capital in the world, but when notices ordering them to move out of their homes rained down on thousands, their enthusiasm turned into bewildered anxiety. They try to hide their worry by "pulling wise-cracks." The favourite of this week-end is the assertion that "half of Berlin is being 3 turned into office buildings and the other half is being pulled down."
If there were only Berliners looking for new homes things might not be so bad, but dictatorial countries need vast staffs of officials to see that the population is doing. just what the chief of State thinks they should be doing. The number of party officials, Government officials and railway: officials who have moved to Berlin' by Government order and failed to find a real flat for themselves and their families is
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