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TIME'S office in London (by far the largest maintained in Britain by any American publisher) must be a very different place to work these days than it was only a few months ago (maybe you'll remember the cable from Walter Graebner that began: "A buzzbomb just flew past our window, looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered . . ."). And before that, of course, there was the airblitz ("You're simply not one of the crowd unless a bomb has blown up in your garden...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
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