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& its wonderfull to sleep & walk around without fear of being blown to atoms. One seems to have forgotten it already, only a bang of any kind plunges one back into war, which proves although forgotten, its by no means out of the system yet.

How very lucky America has been bar in the fact that you have lost that great man Roosevelt. He was a personal loss to each & everyone of us here.

Our V. days were sublimely happy. They held a perfume of the happiness which must have been before the "Fall". It swept over London like nothing I have felt. [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] I wandered in & out of the crowd lapping it up. At night there was a subtle change; it became gay, it continued all night few got home There was a great revert to the primitive with their bonfires in every other street & laughing around them: "we are not a far from the primitive as we think"