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TT ee co4 Ot : { ‘Director, FBI - “2 . c -—-—-—"yorkers felt they -mst cet people out’ of those camps at. “all costs. So we went at it case by case and 500 refurees “were moved into productive lives, and it cost us only .50 ‘a head, The work with displaced persons was harder be~ “gause they had already been screened and we had to-work with what was left after the 7.8., jail record, and other “disabilities had been renoved. ¥e were told 1t was hove~ less, but wo placed 31 in jobs in Munich, fe did it by having faith in the good in the rcfuree, the employer, and the official. Poople said it was American knoa-how, but we tried to show them that the work was done mostly by Swiss “and Germans, and that fer Anericans took part. ‘they asked vs what philosoohy lay behind our willingness to work so : hard end to care so much about individual refuzeese «e . _ told thea that ovr religious belicfe just naturally found . @xpression in social work. ‘this sort of thing can influence tho ¥hole life of German society. They asked us how ne managed to find housing for ow refurces in cities where thero were no houses. te told them wo just used a little free enterprise Fork on it. As a matter of fact, we went ~ te a local man who read want eds and when he found a placo, wont and taliccd personally with the person who had tho _ house tnd made arrangecentsy thus by-passing the avthori~ tics who would have said, "ihere are no houses." Our . work 4n this area of service my be ended, but wo fcol we have planted seeds in the German consciousness which may bear fruit. te are now working with ncighbo:’ od centers &@nd social grows in an effort to find a way getting away. from totalitarianien. ic are working te show demo~ ‘eratic ways. 2ut the expericnce ef the Last Gerrans with © 7 diotatorships and their experiences in Russia during war have left their mark. You can't wina out the long history of social backrround, It is a hard job to get them to uncer stand democracy. Some thought dezocracy meant comnittes _ work, The Germans need to learn to listen. Iwas in tho -Eantern zono and was at a meeting called by the minister on . eulture. He was asked why they jamsed the radio when it was broadcasting frou the Fest. The answer was that they “believe in freo epcech end that ali must speck = East as well as test. Cur area of concern is bringing understend- ing botvoen Eact and West Gcorncns. Tho neighborhood centers . aay ’ . * s — reat