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Belsen From the Belsen camp LIFE Correspondent George Rodger reported: As Winston Churchill addressed the British troops on the banks of the Rhine on March 26, I heard him say: "We are now entering the dire sink of iniquity." These seemed strange words and I did not understand the full meaning of them until today, when at Belsen I witnessed the ultimate in human degradation. There the six-square-mile, barbed-wire enclosure in the heart of a rich agricultural center has been a hell on earth for 60,000 men, women & children of a dozen different nationalities who were...
Some of the dire tales connected with the rest of the boys on the leave are still coming out. Fred Ballantine was seen chasing Bonita Granville through the cars of a UP express with a telegram as an excuse. Herman Homer Cono stuck his head into some place where it didn't belong and he came out with only his bare top to show. B. A. Johnson also ran afoul of a pair of shears in the basement of Gallatin and now stands as living testimony of what the Coop can do to those who don't pay their bills...
...holds nothing more than ten days of bliss--at home for those who live in the region served by the Boston Weather Bureau, on the trains for those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken's face recently; could...
Manpower. The industry had 600,000 workers during the early part of 1944. Now its payrolls were down to 400,000 and the mills were in dire need of furnace repairmen and common laborers. There was bad news ahead in the skilled-trades brackets too: 60,000 of the industry's best technical workers between the ages of 26 and 29 were up for the draft this year...
From here on just consult a junior officer when in dire need and get your old eight hours, and you need have no fears