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The end of 1939 finds Britain near the end of the fourth month of a war which has confounded the experts. Roughly, one million men are under arms in Britain and hundreds of thousands more wiH probably be asked to register on Tuesday of next week. Homes Hornes have been broken up by evacuation. The cost of this war cannot be conveyed by mere figures. Not only the bank clerks are working this year. There are tens of thousands of men and women manning searchlights and anti-aircraft guns, fire engines and ambulances, all over Britain.

It's about the people I'd like to talk, the little people who live in those little houses, who have no uniforms and get no decorations for bravery. Those men whose only uniform was a tin hat were digging unexploded bombs out of the ground this 'afternoon. 'aftemoon. There were two women who gossiped across the narrow strip of tired brown grass that separated their two houses. They didn't have to open their kitchen windows in order to converse. The glass had been blown out. ' Those people were calm and courageous.

They carried a small gun on top of a toadstool-like steel structure fOIWard. fOIward. Depth charges, looking like squat milk cans, were chained up now, ready to be dropped overboard by the flick of a alever. lever. The men in those ships are small. They are of all ages and voices. Some Same of them come from the rocky roeky coast of Scotland and others from the quiet, dark waters on the coast of Essex. Often they have trouble understanding one another. They wear no eommissioned, fly uniform, but their ships, after they have been commissioned, the white ensign of the British Navy.

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