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TnBTB are the lovliest polished floors I ever saw. 2 hey did not 
mfce to get into Ms carpet shoes as we did at San 3ouci in the 
arljt gallery there* Share were endless cabinet s with all sorts 
of preoiuus things— not beautiful in themselves, hut naif of cold 
«■! jewels. In the throne room there was a met haiaichaii offet 
?old angel s aid cupids defying the laws of srayitation hy sticking 
to the ceiling, They were mlaecd up with mm burets and garlanfs 
of flowers and fruits* fltf guide said this affair was made of 
solid silver 9 gold plated. M e gave the weight— l f n not good at me 
mental arithmetic, but It was about 2 tons, as I figured it out. 
1 wondered why the Germans did sot pull the thins down id use it 
for money to keep the mark from falling. All tho«e" gold 06 sfeota 
and things la the cabinets would yield a good hit of gold bullion, 
too, I should £Mnk. The jewels oould be sold to American war- 
profiteers and pay for food. And I suppo s e the Germans would 
starve before they would touch this stuff. If it had any beauty 
I could appreciate their keeping it — but it has nothing to make 
it worth keeping, except that it is a symbol of prestige, as Yeb- 
len night say. And 1 suppose if the Germans did use this stuff 
and probably as much more at Potsdam, thep would be called Bolsobvie 
— After making disparaging remarks about S'edde what do 
you suppose he has done? He oarao marching in yesterday with a big 
pile of Peportoriuns and shouted "GeschenkI" He had gone through 
his files from the beginning and taken out all issues with grass 
papers. He had said something about dfting that and 1 had tried to 
gay we had all to date, now that I had bought band 17. F.ither he 
did not understand or wanted to make the Geschenk anyway. *Te re- 
peated " Gesch enk fur 3ie!'' I did not spoil it bu telling him 
again we had them— 1 thanked him with all the German thank words 
1 know, We probably need some, and it will be convenient to have 
them all together, from Band 1 down, ^oday, Dr. Schuster the lib- 
