In its way each of the following letters from the last fortnight's mail tells part of the story of TIME'S world-wide publishing operation. To those of us whose job it is to get out an issue of TIME every week, they make very rewarding reading.

Sirs:

A few days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left New Orleans."

Mr. Ford is not the only one who does not like to miss a single issue of TIME. The small supply that you have allotted to Morocco is sold out the day it reaches the newsstands. In this beautiful but remote place, which is Marrakech, TIME keeps me in touch with the rest of the world. And the other day, having to cross the Atlas Mountains to Taroudant to visit a Moroccan businessman, I was pleased to find on my night table the latest copy of your International edition.

This is, of course, one more fan letter, but I felt that you would not mind a word of thanks from one of those who, like Mr. Ford, cannot miss his TIME.

D. Dem. Dimancesco

Managing Director Rushtons Maroc Ltd. Marrakech, Morocco

Sirs:

Enclosed is a postal money order in the amount of $12.50 to cover the cost of one year's subscription to TIME,

European edition. Please address the issues to:

Fr. Christa Rosenberger

Kleiststrasse 5

Wiesbaden, Laud Hesse

Germany

During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people.

Although we all knew that for her life was not simple, we were surprised at her cheerfulness.

But I was more surprised when I discovered that my dogeared copies of TIME held top priority with her. The ordinary luxuries like food, cigarettes, and candy had been around before, but your type of comprehensive news reporting was something she had never seen. It amazed and delighted her and, in her own words, made her "more American than German."

My days in Germany are over; there will be other Americans there for some time to come. I want to make sure that there will be more TIMES. To me there is no simple way to let people like Miss Rosenberger--in whose hands the future of Germany (and lots more) rests--see what makes our kind of American democracy function. If she and her friends get from TIME--as I have in the past 18 years--a little better understanding and perspective of events and a broader knowledge of people, it will be not only a liberal education but also their most exciting reading moments for a long time to come.

S/William P. Clark, M.D.

Tuckahoe, N.Y.

To Readers Dimancesco and Clark, many thanks for their good words.

Cordially yours,

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