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...Ministry in London returned a cautious answer. The "omens" were definitely "favorable," but the Battle of Berlin is still in progress and has not reached its final phase. Since the massive raids on the Nazi capital began in November, some 15,000 tons of bombs have been dropped-about one-fourth of what the R.A.F. is prepared to allot for the city's destruction...
Fifty Tons a Minute. So far, the R.A.F. can claim the lion's share of damage done to Germany. Last week Air Vice Marshal R. H. M. S. Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting...
Advice to Patients. The troubles of about one-fourth of Dr. Alvarez' patients are "functional" disorders (caused usually by overtiredness, "nervous storms," sometimes insanity); the rest of his cases are organic. But some patients with well-marked organic disease are suffering not so much from it as from "functional" malady -one woman had five or six organic diseases but the real cause of her trouble was that her husband, tired of her fussiness, had got himself a cheerful mistress. Says Dr. Alvarez: "I knew of no medicine or operation to cure this...
...Pastor R. D. Dodds surveyed his slightly battered, white frame Baptist church, its blown-open door, the broken rainbow-colored windows. Said he, wistfully: "If one-fourth of the people who came to see the hole the bomb made would only attend church...
...substantially the same everywhere : 1) the draft ; 2) new opportunities for young, fit women in the uniformed services or well-paid defense jobs; 3) lack of domestic help, which forces other women to spend more time at home; 4) apathy; 5) optimism. New Orleans' recruiting dropped off one-fourth in May, after the Tunisian victory. And in many a U.S. city discouraged CDVO leaders wondered whether anything short of an enemy bombing could put civilian defense back on its feet...