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... The Rest House Service for Civil Defence Workers By Wilma Buckley IN spite of first, second and any possible number of other fronts, our own Home Front continues to need intelligent handling as well as material support. Since war is not and has never been-- one continuous, unbroken stretch of heroic action but consists (as we all know only too well) of patches of activity interspersed with ...

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