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PAGE EIGHT
The Abilene Reporter-52cms
DECEMBER 10, 1942
Industry Must Be Ready for Post-War Years, Too
Lubbock's Solution
The Times of Wichita Falls finds that the
City of Lubbock has a crew of workmen go-
ing about the Hub of the Plains doing good.
Their job is to lop off underslung tree limbs,
remove vegetation which obstructs motorists’
views at intersections, and take care of any
other natural or unnatural hazard which
may afflict or endanger pedestrians or mo-
torists.
Hear, hear!
In consequence of gasoline rationing to
save rubber, the walker family will have
thousands of new recruits for the duration,
in every large-sized community such as our
own. Walking is fun, but not when you spend
half your walking moments ducking low
limbs' or detouring out into the street be-
cause somebody’s flower bed or vegetable
patch has pre-empted the sidewalk space.
Every city has low limbs and blocked side-
walk spaces, but it seems to us that our own
bailiwick has more of them than any city is
entitled to. :
The only real solution seems to be the one
adopted in Lubbock—have a city crew make
the rounds removing limbs and obstructions,
without cost to the property owner.
People who walk to and from work, or just
for pleasure, will rise up and call the City
of Lubbock blessed because of its fore-
thought. __
: Trouble-Making—For o Purpose
We have now had accounts of two riotous
incidents in settlements where Japanese
have been interned or resettled following
their evacuation from defense zones. The
latest was in California, where one Japanese
was killed when guards opened fire after
’ tear gas and persuasion had failed to quiet
: the rioters.
In both cases the trouble was attributed
: to pro-axis agitators among the evacuees.
The latest incident started when trouble-
makers. to celebrate Pearl Harbor in their
own way, started shouting “Pearl Harbor
Banzai, Banzai!" Loyal Japanese did all they
could to help the guards quiet the demon-
strators, without success. Not until the agi-
tators were rounded up and put in the clink
did the trouble cease. Now army troops in
the California camp have the situation firm-
ly in hand, and all non-Japanese residents of
the camp have been withdrawn.
In all probability these incidents were
manufactured for a purpose, quite beyond
•ny desire of the disloyal Japs to display
their loyalty to Tojo. The disturbers hope to
make medicine for Tokyo by giving the im-
pression that they are being badly treated.
Japanese propaganda will make much of the
- incident, and use it as protective coloration
to hide Japan's own inhuman treatment of
civil and military prisoners.
• As a matter of fact, as all observers agree
: and as most Americans understand, the gov-
: ernment has dealt very gently and leniently
: with the Japanese evacuees. They live in
: comfortable quarters and eat better food
. than most of them have been used to. A big
■ majority of the evacuees have responded
: by behaving themselves. Only a handful
: have sought to cause trouble, and if their
; background is probed sufficiently far back.
: they will be found to be active agents of
: Tokyo, bent on causing as much trouble as
possible. All such should be given a fair trial
in appropriate courts and punished according
to civilized standards. ___1
The Quality of War Writing
Someone remarked the other day, in print,
that some of the best writing in the history
of modern warfare has come out of this con-
flict. Several war correspondents have been
decorated for bravery under fire, several
have been killed, many others wounded.
This means simply that correspondents stick
close to the men who do the actual fighting,
share their hardships and dangers, and suf-
fer casualties accordingly.
This being at close grips with the fighting
front has resulted in a far better quality of
writing than ever before known. The old-
fashioned war correspondent, with his habit
of having tea with the general far behind the
lines and writing his stuff second-handed,
has disappeared—along with the romance
and glamor that attached to his calling. To-
day’s front-line correspondent would not win
any prizes as best-dressed man, or permit
anyone to suggest that there is anything
glamorous about his work. He reports what
he sees and experiences, not what he hears
or imagines. The result is a vividness of de-
scription and an accuracy of reporting equal-
ed by none of the oldtime monocle-and-cane
type of war correspondents.
‘ The common fighting man is getting a big-
ger play than ever before, thanks to this
close contact between writer and fighter.
Where the 1917-18 correspondent was apt to
report that “General Bumblefuss threw his
right into the woods and mopped up an ene-
mv concentration” his modern counterpart
tells how the work was actually done by Pvt.
Smith and Pfc. Jones and Sgt. Johnson. The
difference is that the oldtime writer got his
information from General Bumblefuss, while
his 1942 successor goes right into the thick
of things with the mopping-up crew.
The picture we got of fighting in other
wars was one of mass, not of individuals.
The fellow who thought mechanized warfare
would submerge the individual soldier was
100 percent mistaken. Today’s individual sol-
dier is cock of the walk, for he makes the
machine tick.
By Raymond Clapper
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Last
January, when I was in Detroit
at the time the automobile in-
dustry was converting to war
work. Paul Hoffman, president
of Studebaker, told me that aa
he saw it the test of whether
private enterprise was to survive
in America would be, to some
degree, the performance of the
automobile industry in war pro-
ductton.
His point, as I understood it,
was that if private industry fell
down on the war assignment,
state control would be inevita-
ble. But if private enterprise
did the job, it would have jus-
tified itself. Leaders of the au-
tomobile industry felt that they
were on the spot because they
had become the focus of the
whole struggle to get industry
fully into war work.
A year later it is obvious that
the industry has not only met
the test but met It beyond ex-
pectatlons. The capacity* of
American industry to produce
quickly what is needed has been
fully demonstrated.
Yet in the course of that very
success, industry has produced
for itself a new challenge, which
is to produce for peacetime use
in sufficient volume to give
work to those who are able and
willing to work.
Whether that is the proper
responsibility of industry need
not be argued, because if indus-
try does not find ways to pro-
duce in such volume as to use
the working force of the nation,
there will probably be a strong
political demand that Industry
be subsidized and directed by
the government. We will have
some 10 million men in t h e
armed forces and probably 20
million people in war industry
who must be absorbed back into
peacetime activity. They must
either have work or go on the
dole.
THE COLD, BATTLESHIP-GRAY DAWN
ZAND of Te
RISING saw*
Viewpoints
Relaxed Censorship
That is why Henry J. Kaiser,
one of the most daring and im-
aginative of all of our industri-
alists, told members of the Na-
tional Association of Manufac-
turers last week that they faced
a challenge to forestall a super-
state by their own initiative and
planning
Mr. Kaiser places immediate
war production as the first
problem, but he is finding time
to think about the future and
he urges his fellow manufac-
turers to do the same if they
want to keep industry in pri-
vate hands.
Remember Pearl Harbor!—Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds
Get Rid of Inferiority Complex, Blind Advises Blind
Today's Thought
And I set my face unto the
Lord God, to seek by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, and—*
sackcloth, and ashes. — Daniel
• • •
Prayers are heard tn heaven
vert much in proportion to our
faith. Little faith will get very
great mercies, but great faith €
still greater.—Spurgeon.
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The Literary
Guidepost
......By JOHN SELBY 4
“Bombs Away: The Story of a
Bomber Team,” by John Stein-
beck (Viking: $2.50).
John Steinbeck's "Bombs Away"
is part of a project calle! the Air
Forces Aid Society Trust Fund, the
purpose of which is to care for co-
pendents of men in the air force
perpetually.
"Bombs Away" represents a very
large contribution to the fund. It
already has been sold to the movies
for $250,000, and all the royalty
normally due Mr Steinbeck and his
photographer. John Swope are also
to go to the fund. In addition, the
publisher is turning over his profit.
So much for the background.
KEEN QUEL
Lewis, Queer
and Queen o
made Queen
Anyone with
cause
PREVIEV
By JOHN SELBY !
AP Arts Editor +.
NEW YORK-The hotel room is
small, high up with a good view of
East Side back yards and alley cat *
hangouts. You sit at the window
facing the door. Next to the door is
a closet, next to that the bed. On
your right is a writing table, on
your left a chest of drawers.
It is Karsten Ohnstad’s room and :
you are waiting for him. In a mom-
ent the key is inserted in the lock.
WENT THROUGH COLLEGE
I OU
• ,
It would be a pleasure to say that
the book is a typically good StefA
He can locate curbs, partly by
hearing and partly by the contour beck job, but unfortunately this is
of the paving, and quite often he I not the case. It Is the worst job of
has been asked directions by peot writing Steinbeck ever has done, at
ple who saw him striding along and least in the form of a book— and
thought he could see. He went least in the form 01 4 9005
through a "sighted " college, made I
a fraternity, earned much of his
own keep and had a good time out
of it.-.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
The public’s protest against a censorship
policy of withholding bad news far beyond
the time limits demanded by military strat- He puts first the essential of
egy has made a dent on navy department employment for all who want
rigidity. When the aircraft carrier, Wasp, was to work. Four fields for devel-
sunk, in the Pacific on September 15, the ^^^^ “
news was not announced until six weeks sees a postwar demand for nine
later. The delay, coupled with the still inex- million units of housing. Sec-
plicable censorship of the facts of Jimmy ond, preparations to satisfy the
Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo, caused a consid- pent-up demand for automo-
1 Dues. Third, a vast, unified,
modern, audacious highway sys-
tem — like the Pennsylvania
Turnpike. Fourth, building of
medical centers in every indus-
trial community. ,
In his address Mr. Kaiser
sketched challenging ideas in
all these directions Mainly he
emphasized first the need of
thinking, planning and some
engineering now, and secondly
arrangements for beginning cus-
tomer savings now, with pre-
payment in the case of auto-
mobiles and homes against de-
liveries soon after the end of
the war.
erable outcry. .2 ,
Relaxing the censorship to give us the bad |
as well as the good will create a spirit of con-
fidence which has been rather rudely shock-
ed by recent discovery that we haven’t been
told all the truth. As we remarked the other
day, censorship of American war news has
been clumsy and hampering beyond the de-
mands of military secrecy. There seems to be
a turn for the better.
Metropolitan Opera Has Changed a Great Deal
NEW YORK — The Metro-
..politan Opera is formally op-
ened and doing business at the
familiar Broadway stand But
It is no longer the theatre we
used to know—like the human
body it renews itself every few
years
Tickets are still sold on the
basic of music and glamour.
Only the tickets are sold at
a $5 top instead of $7, for the
first time in more than 10
years, and the glamour is bet-
ter distributed.
Last Monday there were the
same gaping throngs outside
the house, the same blinding
flash bulbs, and the same cat-
ty glances from box to box and
seat to seat, to be sure the
neighbors were not better done
out But the dress snd cos-
tume jewelry trades have
spoiled the show for the old
timers.
It's not quite so glamorous
when on your way to your box
In a new and theoretically ex-
clusive gown you pass its ex-
act copy going upstairs to the
family circle Nor Is it possible
to tell a real pearl doz co lar
from an imitation at more than
ten feet
It used to be that the Met
depended almost altogether on
imported artists — there were
Americans in the roster all the
time but mostly they carried
spears The situation la exact-
ly reversed now, 48.4 percent of
the entire raster is American
born, and the Metropolitan is
exporting its own artists to
South America and other avail-
able opera-minded countries.
And in the old days, which
means pre - depression days,
Gatti-Casazza used to end
practically every season with a
profit. Those were the days
when the subscription sale was
rock-like and secure, this win-
ter the war has cut it down,
although Edward Johnson, the
general manager expects single
sales to cover the drop
As a matter of fact, he points
out that even today all that
stands between the Met and
breaking even is taxes Last
season, with taxes forgiven, the
opera would have been $18,000
in the hole, a mere bagatelle as
opera companies count bagatel-
les.
There is another evidence that
that opera changes Not long
age the members of the Metro-
polltan Opera Club came to-
gether in solemn conclave.
Since 1892 the ail-male mem-
bership of the club haa sat in
two impressive rows in the om-
nibus box on the second layer,
and because of their glowing
white shirt fronts and ties,
backed by their dull black tail-
. cpats, they have been known
I have read all his books At that,
the book is probable as good a o
as most men could have turned out
under the circumstances.
Mr. Steinbeck and Mr. Swope
I for many years as the pen-
guins.
But all was changed at the
conclave aforementioned From
now on it will be proper for a
penguin to attend in a dinner
coat If the edict is brought
closer to earth, it means that
you and I can wear a business
. suit and a blue shirt, if we
want.
Erich Letosdorf took the Met-
ropolitan Opera orchestra to
Lakehurst, N. J recently for a
service mens concert. Before
he began the program he turn-
ed to the audience and declar-
ed that he was glad to have a
chance to prove that operatic
music was not as heavy as
some of the house might think
Then he raised his baton, and
the podium collapsed beneath
him "I guess it’s heavier than
I thought," he called over his
shoulder.
Answers to War Quiz
1. You would know he had served
overseas for a year Each overteas
•tripe represents six months of ser-
vice abroad against an armed en-
emy
J. Allan Pinkerton, detective was
appointed head of the intelligence
service under Gen. George B. Mc-
Clellan in 1861.
3. George M. Cohan, who wrote
"Over There,”
In raising such questions there
is some risk that attention will
be distracted from the more im-
mediately urgent job of pro-
ducing for the war which must
be won before anything else can
happen. Yet there is also grave
risk in not preparing at all for
the day when the war machine
begins to be dismantled and
millions of men will come home
from the war while other mil-
lions will find their war jobs
wiped out.
It is not too early. Republi-
cans are preparing for the
presidential election, which la
two years away. Why should
not industry begin preparing
for a day that may be no fur-
ther away? A manufacturer
plans his next models while
producing his present ones In
the same way industry must
produce for the war while plan-
ning for what cornea after. It
la never wholly one job at a
time.
Men coming beck from the
war will demand jobs, and will
insist on having them,, no mat-
ter what hai to be done to pro-
vide them Mr Kaiser, with the
same foresight he has shown
in war production, is suggesting
to industry lines of thinking
that might avert an ugly social
and political crisis after the
the door opens, and Ohnstad says.
“Hello.”
He takes off his top coat and
hangs it quickly in the closet "How
are you?" he asks, walking easily
down the room He shakes hands
briskly, takes out a pack of cigar-
ettes, and says "Have one?" You do.
and he seats himself in the chair by
the window.
It happens so naturally you for-
get that it's almost a miracle. For
Ohnstad has been blind since he
was seventeen, and he has been in
the hotel only a few hours.
AUTHOR OF BRIGHT BOOK
Ohnstad’s book. "The World at
My Fingertips,” made quite a stir.
It's a bright book, gay in spots, in
which he tells just what happened
to him and why. and how he has
managed to overcome one handi-
cap after another, and even to find
a few advantages in hie sightless
state.
For example, a friend taught him
to tell from echoes the size and
shape of things along the sidewalk
—a hedge six inches high makes a
difference.
He can mark cards inconspicu-
KARSTEN OHNSTAD
•.... sun A Capable Person ...'
ously, and play good bridge, and
skating is one of his favorite sports
He skates alone, and knows by the
sounds he hears when other skaters
approach He admits that he avoids 1
crowded ice rinks—but so do sighted
people.
GIRLS and a MAN
DIS IRV
ER
EIC
Chapter 16
REUNION
Rita woke from a night of chaotic
dreams the morning after Carlos
had gone to Frisco. She donned
blue sharkskin slacks and a white
silk shirt, brushed her red-gold
hair till it fell in crisp, shining
waves about her face, then hurried
She centered her mind reso-
lutely on Carlos’ amusing fear of
poisoning a fetish to cover his
hospitable nature, which had
caused him much unpleasantness
by emotion, came the vision of
her last evening with Clark . . .
the soft throbbing background of
city traffic ... the strength of his
arms around her, his eyes searching
hers, his voice a low whisper. “You
from neighboring innkeepers! He
wouldn’t be back until Sunday
probably. Her heart, pounding
suddenly with warm excitement.
down to the beach. I warned her she mustn’t think of 1 herself fiercely. And she wasn't
She felt wan and exhausted this Carlos. She knew it was because | in love with him!’ It was only
morning not able to stand the Carlos was with Clark Pasquin that a passing meeting. He’d forgotten
: strain of the memories her she had had' the wild night of
; dreams had roused. Doc Burrows dreams
; said she must keep her mind off
her problems till she was tested
; She walked the mile to Carlos’
shack andgradually the damp
frengraoce'of the morning, the
whispering of the tall pines, the
. tumbling rush of the blue water
: on white sand helped to sooth her
frayed nerves.
Carlos was seeing Clark, talking
to him , . hearing that humorous.
friendly voice, watching his strong,
well-shaped hands gesturing as he
talked . .
Desperately she hurried along the
pine-bordered path Her trouble
and pain had temporarily cut off
memories but now, sharply etched
don’t believe I’m in
love with
you ... "
Well, he hadn't been, she told
And she wasn’t
it. An had she. So had she. She
was almost running now, in an
effort to stop her thoughts. They
were worlds apart. He'd realized
it as soon as she had left the city.
Suddenly her body shook with
a racking sob. Thank heavens,
there was the shack on the crag
above her! She'd talk to the
housekeeper — get her mind off
this squirrel track! She started up
the winding path at a gasping
run ...
And saw coming down the path
toward her—Clark!
He was in rough tweeds and a
green sweater, swinging a stick
at the weeds along the path as he
came at a rapid swinging stride.
He looked up at her light, choking
call and saw her, standing a slim,
poised figure at the turn of the
path with the green ocean behind
her and the sunlight filtering
through the trees to halo her titian
head.
"Rita!”
At the eager sincerity of his
voice. Rita's desperate wall of con-
trol suddenly crumbled She was
running towards him-she was in
his arms, crying with the luxurious
abandon of a child.
GREAT OLD SPORT
Later as they l drove blissfully
along the seventeen-mile stretch of
beautiful coastline between Carmel
and Del Monte. Rita found abruptly
the terrible loneliness that had en-
gulfed her since Holly’s death was
gone Peacefully she watched the
breeze lifting Clark’s dark hair,
traced his famous profile against
Oddly, he accepts all these things PemDeck 4 ™ en
and a great many more as perfect- were, chaperoned over the country
ly natural. He asks no quarter from by the Army Air Force, which nat-
anyone | urally saw that he got to the Array
"The’ difficulty with too many H«M* exclusively. Therefore the
sightless people," he says, "is that extremely important Navy side of
they have given themselves an In- the subject is practically ignored,
feriority complex. You can sit on And the brass hats appear to have
your rear end in a room for a life- insisted that Mr Steinbeck de a
time, worrying about crossing that
wide street downstairs.
gloss on a factual basis, which is
“If you can once realize your
own capabilities, the rest isn’t diffi-
cult. You may have lost your sight
—but you are still a capable per-
son. Useful too, if you want."
Ohnstad lives now in Northfield,
Minn He's going home by way of
Indianapolis and Louisville. More,
he's going alone and he expects to
have a good time.
As good a time as he had when he
saw "Uncle Harry” and went to the
Music Hall.
United Nations No w Truly United
By JOHN GROVER
Events of this last month should
dispel any doubts that the United
, Nations are truly united-united by
War Quiz
1. If you saw an Army enlisted
man wearing two of these stripes,
what would you know about his ser-
vice record?
2. When w
a private detec
tive head of
the intelligence
branch of the United States Army?
1 Ths author of America's most
popular World War 1 song recently
died What was his name and what
was the song?
war and enable industry to
keep private enterprise travel-
ing under its own steam Gov-
ernment control of industry
won't be avoided by resolutions
of the Republican National
Committee but by avoiding the
need for It. •
interdependence on mutual action
for success against the Axis.
Dispatches from Associated Press
war correspondents in Russia, Af-
rica. China and the south seas
document the fact that what hap-
pens on one front has immediate
repercussions on all the rest. We
—the United Nations—are in hot
water or in clover together.
Two days after Gen Eisenhow-
er landed in Africa, Henry Cassidy
and Eddy Gilmore of the AP Mos-
| cow bureau reported that Nazi air
activity decreased from 2,000 to 200
sorties daily. Hitler had to pull
his luftwaffe out of Russia in a
desperate gamble to save his re-
maining chipa in Africa.
With the air again the province
of Russian Stormoviks and lend-
leased Airacobras and Spitfires, the
Soviets launched the offensive that
has sent Hitler reeling in Russia,
Stalin’s jubilant letter to Cassidy
attested the value of the African
bogged down six weeks ago, it
threatened the success of fronts on
the other side of the world. Preci-
ous shipping had to be diverted to
reinforce that area. Only the
magnificent victory of the U. 8.
fleet saved the situation.
not his forte "The Grapes at a
Wrath" was a striking Job in spite
of the fact, that the author’s ac-
quaintance with Oklahoma and her
Okies was superficial—or perhaps
because of that fact.
What has emerged is a kind 'f
super-ad for the Army Air Force.
It is scrupulously truthful about the
difficulty of the course, and lavishly
appreciative of the high Calibre of
the men in the force. The reader's
admiration for the thoroughness
and speed of the training is inev a
ably -high. You like the boys, you
think Mr. Steinbeck is a fine fellow,
the photographs are average, and
the project is worthy. The book just
doesn't read very well; it repeats its
fundamental ideas, too often ‘
reading comfort, like the “begats”
in the Bible.
Question and
Answer
front to Russian plans
Conversely, when the offensive
in the Solomon Islands seemed
That had its effect in China
where Gen "Uncle Joe" Stilwell,
certain now to get a steady stream
of supplies, could take the offen-
sive against key Jap bases
constant pressure by Stilwell’s
forces further aids Russia in less-
ening the possibility of a Japanese
thrust at Siberia.
Russian successes in the two-
pronged drive on the Don-Vo’ga
front made possible by withdraw-
al of the Nazi air forces to Africa.
In their turn contribute to the
softening of the Axis everywhere
else. Troops pinned there can't
bulwark the channel coast or the. .______________.
Mediterranean bastion of the Axis, nutmeg or cloves?
Eisenhower and his International A—Allspice, from the nearby West
force will have easier going for Indies. Use it in equal amounts.
every Nazi the Russians hold on [ • * *
the steppes There'll be fewer Q—The.U 8 Marine Corps is a
USAAF and RAF planes lost in branch of which of these organiza-
the round the clock bombing of
German production centers for
each plane kept busy in Russia.
It all adds up
4
Q—Why Is Dakar so important to
us?
A—Its location en She western
bulge of Africa, across from the
bulge of Brazil, makes it the short
est oversea firing route between the
Old World and the Americas. It
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Partisans sa
ths blue of the sea, and smiled
dreamily back at him
"What if Carlos hadn’t told you!"
she cried once.
"Carlos couldn’t have resisted
playing Cupid," Clark grinned "He
had to come with me in the plane,
too, to see the reunion. He's a great
old sport " His tone was light and
his changing of the subject delib-
erate.
She looked so frailly lovely, ao
frightfully white against the red
leather of the car seat he didn’t
want to risk questions and explana-
tions He was burning with curios-
ity of course Why hadn't she an-
swered his wire? Why had she left
her home without leaving a for-
warding address?
He wanted her to tell him the
truth back of all those wild stories
of Gloria’s about an unpaid loan,
and trouble with the stockholders
of her father's factory. But these
things could wait. They were un-
important.
Whatever the trouble had been,
the only thing that mattered now
was helping her to forget it—or
to work it out. To erase the haunted
look from her face and bring back
that game little tilt of her chin, her
old buoyancy.
He began to make plana for. the
rest of the day . . . lunch at the
lodge, a swim In the hotel pool
dinner, dancing, a moonlit drive
back to her hotel Aa long as
Carlos was so surprisingly cooper-
ative, they must take advantage of
it And next week she must come
up to Frisco ...
His eyes twinkled suddenly.
“Remember that siege you’re in
for?" And with the words, he
stopped the car as he had once
before and took her into his arms.
THE DETECTIVE
"You know,” she said. “This isn’t
the right sort of place for us to
straighten out everything "
He laughed. "Of course not
That’s why I stopped here."
For a moment neither spoke,
and then Rita stirred in his arms,
and sighed. "Do you know that
the only reason you’re here is that
Carlos is a good detective?"
“He’s a lot of things but I never
should have called him a detec-
live "
“It’s true, just the same" She
sat up a little. “He was looking
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through a paper, and I saw some- Hold Everything
thing in it that made me feel- 110 EYErY 449
strangely. I felt faint, a little.
"And then?"
"And then Carloa looked at me
-you see he was very anxious to
see you - and began wondering
what I could have seen at that
distance to make me act the way
i did."
‘I think I understand—"
"Probably Well, his detective In-
stinct got the better of him. It
couldn’t have been anything I had
read, he deduced, because I was
too far from the paper. Therefore
it must have been the picture
"And it was my picture?" ,
She murmured from his shoul-
der, ”Yes You know, 1 thought
we weren’t ever to be together
again." 17 1
He stroked her hair tenderly
"There’s nothing in this .world
strong enough to keep us apart
Ta be continued
The meaning of an all-out
war is becoming clearer and
clearer-all out of gas, meat
coffee, etc.
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