Excerpt from Representative Government and a Parliament of Industry: A Study of the German Federal Economic Council Berlin in 1922 charmed my heart as well as occupied my mind. For here was a people in deep distress showing a great courage in face of an economic future without any promise of betterment. It was a toiling people, a constructive people, and on the whole, a very kindly people. The courage and the beauty of the city at that time can never be forgotten. For I could commune at will (as never at home) with the music of Mozart and Wagner and Strauss played to houses full of people direct from the labour of the day I could see the emotion of the spirit portrayed on their faces as the story of Peer Gynt passed before them in scenes of marvellous stagecraft. Nor will my great gratitude to, and delightful memories of, my good friends of Berlin and from London suffer diminution. Unnamed, those friends yet have the knowledge of my deep thankfulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.