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awit o a A \ ep linedowith platinum,” rhe sald. | bombing of Japanese cities under circumstance: war correspondents, strictly against orders. This eerily-lovely, ruined) fig. tt wes barred to all-Amer- 1 Amer- panied a Navy expedition which foamy and Britisn except two mal) H DeORInt oP rather waved supe eTmoment of rather scared anger, ween. American move in the war. I was on at the|Allled Control Commission. . ume ‘by a German mine| Nevertheless, we were there and 3 few months later—the first Amer-|the afternoon we arrived—through ean ship sunk in a war which had|courtesy or stupidity of the Rus- ed. ‘sians, I never could tell which, and to the great annoyance of Gen: yan instinctive dislike. in Vienna—Americans, British | “I know all about this 385," he ond Russians were quite excited. A said in the wardroom one’! __{Hungerien newspaper bad just ap- official voice of the Navy. “The way the Navy jooks af it is|!n Hungarian and very few foreign- that It's a lot of bunk—just stuff put era can read this langauge, out by German agents trying to stir ‘up trouble.” «"And as for these theoretical lides for them,” he continued. “If|vious to the fall of 1941 when J ad Bay way we'd line them ali up|curity restrictions (against the wall tom tell you right now the Navy's got no|mental work on atom splitting pre-|ever wg project and the “secret New Mextoo desert. “But what of it?” asked = Britlsh lady nt with our little .}group. “It’s just another explosive. im’t it? They've been new weapons all the time and as is only something & little worse than’ what has gone before.” “No,” I said. “You can compare} the situation to that of a B-29 sweeping over the ‘battlefield “of Agincourt. There's about the dif-| ference between this stuff and a. block buster as between # bombing] - plane and the Bowe of the. Engliah| archers.” T think ‘the lady was duly tm. reat itjon and of the relatively smell contri- butions of my fellow countrymen test | until just before the end. - It was futile to belittle the claims’ anneeruneen