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...V-E day about 6,000,000 impatient Europeans will start walking home. That was the guess, last week, of Fred K. Hoehler, UNRRA's director of "displaced persons," who figures that by war's end the number of mislaid people in Europe will still bearound 15,000,000-not counting prisoners...
Within a year after V-E day, most of the mislaid survivors will probably be home again, but it may take 20 years to repatriate all who want to go back. At least 1,000,000 may not want or dare to go home. Of World War I's 2,000,000 refugees, a quarter never got home...
Among others to whom V-E day will not bring the promise of speedy repatriation are some 400,000 refugees of the Spanish civil war, a great many of them in France, and thousands of Poles in & out of uniform, scattered from Scotland to Calcutta...
Keeping this fact in mind, many a businessman expects that profits will hold up fairly well under the comparatively small cutbacks planned for V-E...
...reasoning of the armed services was plain. After V-E day the U.S. could vastly step up its already irresistible force in the Pacific. Stepping it up would vastly speed the end of the war. For soldiers who had already fought one war in Europe, it was a hard decision. But fighting men in the Pacific would welcome it. It meant that the war against Japan might not be such a long-drawn-out affair after...