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Untie those whistles; take those boards off the shopwindows; disband those parades; put that bottle of bourbon back on the shelf-there may be no V-day...
...said the War & Navy Departments last week in an OWI statement: V-day may be spread gradually over days and weeks. No general surrender of the German Armies is expected; they may gradually disintegrate and surrender piecemeal. And the Allies' policy is not to accept surrender from any hastily contrived substitute German Government; the Allies are not looking for any Nazi Badoglio; the war with Germany will be finally over only when all Germany has been occupied, town by town...
Instead of all this talk and planning about closing up shop and blowing off steam when V-day in Europe comes, how about keeping our shirts on, sticking soberly on the job, and putting our backs into helping those one million boys in the Pacific get home the sooner...
Merchants in big, medium-sized and small cities have made plans for closing their stores on V-day. V-day instructions are either complete or imminent in Manhattan, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Kansas City, Dallas, Helena, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Portland, Richmond, Indianapolis, Detroit...
Georgia will close all State liquor stores, not only on V-day, but for two days thereafter. In Raleigh, N.C., the Allied