New Britain herald., 1930-08-14
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Hamburg, Aug. 14-Hamburg re-
 ceived the deepest wound of all in
 the war. First to eat black bread
 the falling mark tumbled first into
 oblivion here. Prosperity depending
 So solely upon it's enormous port, it
 was bled white, it's swift rhythm
 clcgged.
 Universal commerce was obliter-
 ated by stOppage of navigation and
 complete loss of it's merchant fleet. ! That it survived these blows, to-
 gether with crushing terms of
 peace, smacks of elbow grease. The
 city decreased in population from
 million to zoo, ,OOG.
 But the venturesome Hanseatic l spirit crushed to earth. like truth,
 arises. Today it tops the million
 mark in a remarkable comeback. i That it established successfully it's
 now famous University of Hamburg after the revolution is too, a tri ! umph fer kultur.
 1 To my notion Hamburg is the | least sentimental about the Kaiser. i might add my impression Ger | many's greatest hatred is for Bel gium. England next, and France ! least of all. Germans believe that | had Belgium offered no resistance l they would have taken Paris and
 won the war in quiCk-time. l Hamburg's port is beehive and ! has caught up with it's before war traffic. That web uniting German commerce with all far-flunG out posts of the world has again been spun. Long quays and harbor ba- sins are alive with ships The fast est train in Europe is between Der lin and Hamburg.
 Hamburg has an exquisite setting. | The Alster river forms lake around which the city is built in SC mi-circle The lake is animated with pleasure boats and its banks are terraced and torested, giving the ensemble appearance of a wa tering resort
 Yet the city is all business. Rank is gained solely by personal ability Night life is unknown. and l am told only two restaurants feature dancing. It's staid cItizenry reminds me of Alfred HenkinC, sedate banker Of our, who was a German American.
 Hamburg offers the quintessence ot csmopoitanism. Through it's vast shipping it is in touch with the entire world In a steamship of- flee. an old friend the Herr Direk- tor talked as I waited at his desk,
 in five different languages over the telephone and added superb lin- Guistic finish ty turning to inquire in pure Broadway: "How's every little wrinkle?"
 While old merchant hcuses re- rain, they are vanishing. These are long warehouses with front doors on the street and back doors facing shipping canals that thread the town. In the beginning they were a united dwelling house. office and warehouse under one roof. Modern office buildings are separating busi- ness association from family life. Hamburgians today catch trains 10 New Rochelles.
 This is a summer oyerCoat town | too. At in the evening an icy mis- ! tIal pops up, and those caught off | guard to fancy teeth Chattering. In ! 8 cab to the hotel this evening ! Billy sat in the front seat doing the l noatest hula I've seen since Gilda . went Park Avenue. He doth not . care for the coolth, the thilthy.
 Hamburg and environs have not | been invaded by the naked cults. 1 Twenty-eight weekly and monthly 1 periodicals are devoted tc their l aphrodisiacs in Germany Sans | clothes, they live close 10 nature i and in proximity to every large 1 city. It is an offshOot of after-War | psych hology, and in such matters ! the Germans are extremists. On the i