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Last evening I was sitting outdoors shelling peas, looking over the hedge into my neighbor's garden of prize roses when an Army plane roared overhead and I thought, I wonder what it would look like around here if that pilot planted a bomb right in the middle of that garden. . . Such thoughts are my constant companion and I feel sure that I am like wives and mothers all over the nation. Why is it, we wonder, that we are allowed to continue to go about the homely tasks: cooking the cereal, wiping the baby's nose, cleaning...
...internal disorder, it is far from invulnerable to seizure from without. An invading general whose troops break through the ring of old forts and gain access to the boulevards has the same advantages that Haussmann's revolt-breakers were supposed to enjoy. And the old masonry buildings become bomb traps since the limestone of which they are constructed shatters easily, each splinter becoming itself a missile...
According to Scoopster Wythe Williams, M. Laval repeated his report. Suddenly, like a Nazi delayed bomb, Edouard Daladier, who had for some weeks lain quiet as a dud, exploded. It was all the fault of this disgraceful rout in Flanders, he raged...
Chaos was what Ernie Bevin found when he took over the Ministry of Labor from bomb-loud, burrow-slow Ernest Brown, and he lost no time restoring order...
Spain and' Portugal were mentioned as possible havens. Although the Vatican had supposedly been assured that the Allies would never bomb Rome, it was prepared last week to institute a total blackout...