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| 2. "I understand they ship out this vaccine and plasma in cartons. My brother just loaded some this week - 80 cases in one morning. He says that every ship that goes out of Portland lately takes a lot of it." | ||||||
| 1. "Yeah, they're loading extra paint on every one of the Libertys we've delivered in the last three weeks. Guess that tropic climate makes them rust plenty." | ||||||
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| 4. "Let's see -' every ship in the last three weeks -' that would be at least 15 - maybe more. `Vaccine and plasma' - that means New Guinea. 'Every ship -' that means that they're getting ready to take care of a lot of men. `San Francisco -' that would be the rendezvous for a convoy. `Couple of months' - yes, that checks with New Guinea." | ||||||
| 3. "Jim says he'll look around for some linen tablecloths when he's in San Francisco next week. You remember Jim. He's been sailing on Liberty ships. He's going to be leaving in a day or two; probably won't see him for a couple of months." | ||||||
| ... have you condemned a Yank to death? | ||||||
| No,
you haven't condemned a Yank to death - at least, not intentionally,
but a tiny bit of your lunchtime conversation, a remark you may have
made on the bus or street corner might have helped the enemy. Tiny
scraps of conversation, seemingly unimportant in themselves, can be
pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle - until the pieces fit - until
the knowledge of our plans aids the enemy.
The sinister spies of movies and fiction are rare, but in their place are enemy sympathizers, patient, pains- |
taking
people - piecing together scraps of information - watching our plans
slowly take shape.
WHAT
DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH US? Just this. Ordinary little
facts about our ships could supply the missing pieces in the jigsaw
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