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task of the University. He did this in a shy way as
he was obliged to speak through an interpreter, but
he was obviously inspired by the best of intentions
to try to promote understanding between the
Germans and the English. Lord Pakenham made an
excellent impression at this time. He stressed that
the contacts between German and English
universities should be strengthened and broadened. A start
had already been made: two hundred German
students had been the guests during the passed summer
of various universities in England. After Lord
Pakenham’s address a new president of Hamburg
University was installed at a ceremony. He spoke
about — eternal peace.
I see the workers whom I met during a visit in
the mines of Gelsenkirchen. They received an average
wage of ten and a half marks a day, not much if
one considers that an American or English cigarette,
at that time, was quoted at five to six marks on the
black market. On the other hand, their rations were
much greater than those of the ordinary citizens.
Because of their important occupation, they received
3,500 calories a day. But their faces reflected
depression and despondency when they told me about
how they looked at the situation. Everything was
uncertain, they said, the future very insecure. They
responded sharply at the mention of the dismantling
of factories. If, they said, the English thought that
by dismantling the factories tŘey could get manpower
for the mines, they were wrong. In the first place,
skilled laborers are needed in the mines. And in the
second place it usually proved impossible to move
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