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to make a concession of it later - to have something to concede and to let them know this was costing us real money.

Had a letter today from Bob Walsh at El Paso saying he is improving and hopes to be better than he has ever been soon. He said this was in answer to my note of a year and a half ago but he had simply been too ill to write until lately. He also said he had heard there had been a lot of changes in the department and he hoped I had shared in the general upping of people or something to that effect. I am glad Bob is better and hope he will really recover completely and come back and at last take up a normal life again. Poor old Bob has certainly been handed an awful deal by life or fate or whatever it really is - or is it anything? With the world in its present state one wonders what really is guiding it along the way of its destiny.

There are ominous signs that France will soon fold up - not because of lack of courage but from physical and material exhaustion. Paris has been declared an "open city" by the French who will not defend it and the Germans have agreed to respect it as such - to to save Paris from destruction which would surely happen if the French attempted to defend it street by street as they once planned to do. The British are said to be rushing aid to the French but as usual it is too late from all the signs. The French appear nearly beaten and next the Germans probably will turn to England which faces the first invasion since 1066.