Letter From London

EUROPE ON THE BRINK

Specters from the past are haunting Europe again today, Specters of Communism and militant nationalism, of the clenched fist and violence in the streets. Paris, Rome, Berlin, Brussels—city after city, during these last few weeks, has seen steel helmeted police clashing with slogans houting, stone-throwing mobs. Anybody old enough to remember the 1930s might well feel a shiver down the spine.