Washington By Marquis Childs Russian Hail99 STOCKHOLM The most *- traordinary phenomenon of post- war Europ is the reports of fly- ing bombs or rockets th at are now beginning to come from widely separated areas. If they are real, then we hav a small sample of what the next conflict will be like. If they are m ere illusion, then w hav an example of the uneasy state of mind of the people who live on this troubled Continent. The rockets were firs t. reported in num bers from Sweden, where you would assume that the cauti- ous and even-tempered popula tion, untouched by the direct tragedy of war, would not be sub- ject to random nightmares. Next were vague reports of fire bombs ver Athens at the tim e of th e visit of the aircraft carrier Frank lin D. Boosevelt. More recently, rockets hav been reported ver Italian cities and the Italian gov- ernm ent has ordered an investi- I hav talked to many people here about the flying bombs. Some put the wliole thing down to post- war hysteria. Others take a seri- ous view of what they call, half in jest, Russian hail. One thoroughly reliable Ameri can observer with whom I talked saw a flying bomb in broad day- light ver this city. It was a cigar-shaped object which streaked across the sky with great speed and seemed on the point of shoot- ing earthward.. Careful Swedish observers hav seen what they believed to be rockets. Official opinion is th at nothing is really known about the phe nomenon, which has now more or less subsided. Recently, at any rate, very few reports of bombs hav been received. If the gov- jernm ent has found any fragments, ! that fact is being kept a careful THE SOUNDEST opinion seems to me to be this: The Russians on the island of Peenemunde, off the German coast in the Baltic, are probably experimenting with televised rockets. They m ust send them ver a fairly long distance in order to make an adequate test. It could be embarrassing to shoot them into British or Ameri can zones. Sweden has large forest areas with sparse popula tion. This is therfcfore a good tai>