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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have often wondered whether Miscellany is intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California...
...Franklin Roosevelt had just announced his decision not to furnish U. S. naval convoys to returning refugees (see p. 9) and John Kennedy was abruptly taken aback to find that this subject was passionately uppermost in his interviewers' minds...
...crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place. The Army had taken over the country...
...confidence, all the complacency had vanished last week from the four emissaries. They drove aimlessly about the Italian countryside "on a sightseeing trip," wondering what to do with a 6 ft. by 24 ft. tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
...over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed or distorted...