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aviators are adequate to their task, that the machine, are being
delivered far faster than the personnel can be developed and that there
are no personnel reserves.  They have designed an enormous volume of 
fire for some of these machines but the more experienced men in the 
service are in despair over the lack of any plan to keep the ammunition 
supply adequate for the prepective consumption. Moreover, the bursts 
of fire consume such a volume that the plane may easily exhaust its 
annuntion too soon under combat conditions.
 
 
 One of the host responsible men in the aviation service told
him that, if actual eventualities came, the German air force night be
able to inflict considerable damage and have the upper hand but only
for a few hours. A very high officer in the Reichwehr stated at the
end of Septenber, "If war comes, we shall have our hands full with the
Czechs.  We can beat them but it iS going to be tough. But, we are lost
if even a single other power comes in.  If they do, we can only pray
God it will be short."
 
 
Quite as interesting is the information from the army, that
the beginning of hostflftfes would have been the occasion of a real 
crack-up in the German army. Liberals and radicals were heart sick 
and dismayed when Chamberlain collapsed.  One said that it was the blackest 
day for Germany since the Versailles Treaty was signed.
 
 
 Also off interest is the evidence that the present monstrous 
cruelties against the Jews have revolted the German people thoroughly
and deeply.  My friend knows of actual cases, giving the names and
places, of assistance to refugees by people high both in the army and 
the navy, and even cases of storm troopers assisting Jews over the border.
 
 
 One amusing feature of the sitation is the abnormal increse 
in the sales of tea-cosies. These are now used very widely in Berlin
to place over the telephone as it hms been found thst the Police have 
discovered a way to tap telephones and listen in although the receiver 
is still on the hook. To clap the tea-cosy over the telephone is the 
normal preliminary to ccnversation.