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...with 300 Red Army troops who were now sailing into the harbor aboard the Soviet transport Luga. These were only the first instalment of 25,000 Soviet soldiers who are being brought to Estonia under the Treaty to garrison Stalin's bases. The Estonians agreed to billet these troops in private homes. Since most Estonians speak or understand Russian, since every Red Army soldier is well drilled in Communist propaganda, this billeting seemed clearly a Soviet opening wedge. Moreover the Red Fleet brought quantities of Moscow newspapers, immediately put on sale in Tallinn kiosks, and curious Estonians promptly bought...
London was most thoroughly prepared. It planned to evacuate its 650,000 school children, school by school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played...
...declared war on Germany, they were ready. In the grey morning they marched to school, gathered for final instructions. Not knowing where he was going (each school was to take the first free train out), each child had a postcard, to be sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week, the greatest mass evacuation in Britain...
...return mail three billet doux were received by as many Shipley misses from the philandering Princetonians who were duly apologetic...
...being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...