Since the hot season seems now properly to have descended upon us and moving around is becoming a tiresome business, many are prone more than usual to the pastime o listening-in/ to our radio announcer: and may be to reading the new: papers with more than customary attention. This means that we have fallen victims to the reported spates of our various military spokesmen and have had war and political situations brought to our unwilling attention. Owing to the over-cautious and confusing manner in which our spokesmen express themselves, we must confess to being very little wiser, but one feels that these gentlemen volley forth in words in order io disguise what they don't know. We certainly gather that we are in for a long war—probably a second Thirty' Years War—but we bear in mind the sayings of warriors former wars and comfort ourselves with the thought that the first seven years will be the worst (and already One year is over)
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