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Friday, September, 24, 2010 seen the Military Governor of the U.S.A. At a reception in the White House, and at a distance. "What a man. What dignity and bearing. So I know what I'm talking about," he wound up. "It was a dreadful thing," Rita said, "when General Rommel was relieved of his post and that awful Lammers was appointed in his place. That's when that murdering and those concentration camps really began." "They existed when Rommel was Military Governor." "But --" She gestured. "It wasn't official. Maybe those SS hoodlums did those acts then. . . but he wasn't like the rest of them; he was more like those old Prussians. He was harsh --" "I'll tell you who really did a good job in the U.S.A.," Wyndam-Matson said, "who you can look to for the economic revival. Albert Speer. Not Rommel and not the Organization Todt. Speer was the best appointment the Partei made in North America; he got all those businesses and corporations and factories -- everything! -- going again, and on an efficient basis. I wish we had that out here -- as it is, we've got five outfits competing in each field, and at terrific waste. There's nothing more foolish than economic competition."
Rita said, "I couldn't live in those work camps, those dorms they have back East. A girl friend of mine; she lived there. They censored her mail -- she couldn't tell me about it until she moved back out here again. They had to get up at six-thirty in the morning to band music." "You'd get used to it. You'd have clean quarters, adequate food, recreation, medical care provided. What do you want? Egg in your beer?" Through the cool night fog of San Francisco, his big German-made car moved quietly.
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