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...first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous trucks ("mobile units"), which, manned by doctors, will cruise around stricken areas. Smaller first-aid stations are set up in public laundries, baths, and in most public buildings. Almost all stations are equipped with shower baths to "decontaminate" victims of poison...
...Nazi bombing planes would have strafed it mercilessly. If they could have wrecked its essential services by perhaps a fortnight of intensive bombing-wrecked its communications, its power supply, its waterworks and sanitary facilities until plague stalked the streets and 10,000,000 human beings were thrown into horror-stricken disorder-the British Government might have been forced to make peace even at the cost of surrendering the proud British fleet...
Last week Lord David Cecil (author of The Stricken Deer, a life of Poet William Cowper) published the story of Lord Melbourne's first life. The Young Melbourne is perhaps the best, certainly the raciest and most absorbing biography since Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria...
...Poverty-stricken migrants, chiefly from Oklahoma (thus "Okies"), to California's promised land, where they worked as itinerant harvest hands, lived in filthy squatters' camps. The name is now applied to all refugee workers from the Southwest and Midwest dustbowls. For further information on California's migrant workers' woes and big land-grabbing agriculturists, see Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Little, Brown, $2.50), out last month...
Last week DuBose Heyward, who made his literary reputation by sympathetic studies of Negro life in his native South Carolina (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), did his sympathetic best by the poverty-stricken Negroes of the Virgin Islands...