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-- with 3 divisions, mind you -- there have 300 divisions of Nazi soldiers at Stalingrad.

It is about time that we live up to your talk. That the phrase "United Nations" means all the signatories, not just the United States and Great Britain. If we mean to do nothing and let other human beings die for us, it would be slightly better manners to keep our mouths shut.

Perhaps the photograph is more of a portrait than you think. My life is so filled with work that I scarcely seem to be a human being at all. At any rate, I passed on the observations to Berenice. She will try to do better next time, if I get the weight off.

No, you hadn't told me that Ross, Jr., was in the service. I am glad he will be able to get good training while serving his country. Where is he studying? And what?

I hope Helen has good luck with the civil service examinations. I keep getting requests from the government to come and make maps from air photographs, as a result of the war training course I took the past summer at Columbia. I may be doing it yet, though really my eyes are not good enough for close work like that.

I hope you are well. It has been rather unusually cold here, and with the fuel shortage one notices it. I can't wear woolly underwear, owing to that baby skin which objects strenuously to anything scratchy. So sometimes I feel a little cool.

With best wishes and much love

Elizabeth