Berlin reparations assignment

the long version

"The story of [this book] is as up-to-the-minute as a radio broadcast. It is as pertinent and timely as commentator's between-the-rounds summary at a prize fight. It is a blow-by-blow account of round one in Berlin. The second round was in Moscow in April, 1947; the third -- as this is written -- will be in London in November. The issues that were fought to a draw in Berlin are the same that wrecked the Moscow conference and are likely to be first on the agenda in London -- namely, the economic unity of Germany and the Russian demand for reparations from current production"--Jacket.