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...TIME correspondents are spending their holidays in far places this year. Robert Sherrod was back from Tarawa for Christmas at home with his wife and two sons. Jack Belden, veteran of the wars in China, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years...
...official attitude is infectious. Navy censors last week denied deleting "horror scenes" from the official films of Tarawa. Newsreel producers had cut them through fear that women might get sick in theaters...
...horror and repugnance aroused by the use of gas in World War I is still alive. Sensitive U.S. citizens shuddered at an editorial last week in the New York Daily News and the Washington Times-Herald entitled "We Should Have Used Gas At Tarawa...
...killing or injuring depends chiefly on lack of preparation against it. The Allies at Ypres in 1915 were taken by surprise. Ignorant civilians might still be panicked by it. But soldiers and civilians who have masks and know what to do are relatively safe. (The Japs at Tarawa were well equipped with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister gases (mustard and Lewisite...
...lashing fire of Tarawa marines saw him again. His arms were still folded and his voice was as calm as if he had been sitting at a desk in Washington...