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1 1 13 PAGE F0U3 .Ik 1 I j r. : r Mm -j , -T. - 1 w-- 'lC-' ' .. X. ' S." "Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Am" - from First SUtesmaD, tlarch ZS,;l85i THE STATESaiAN PUBUSHINC CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . Member of Tb Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an .news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited, in this newspaper. ? Italians Aren't Foob ' " German units established themselves in : great numbers in Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria t - . they " were so numerous that everyone suspected an ul-- terior reason to be on the spot to quash any Ital f ian movement to break away from, the axis. At first ' the Italian population was inclined to welcome them and to make an effort to get along with them. But - soon their Teutonic unyieldingness and their meth ' odUcal requisitioning of everything they needed ' aroused great antagonism . . . A Swiss friend ol ours who lived in Sicily told us that the German - fliers there pulled up vineyard stakes andj fence palings whenever, they wanted to make fires for - cooking. This was particularly , serious! in Sicily, where wood was scarce and expensive. ! . . ! - "I am sure the Sicilians would welcome any in vasion which would get rid of the Germans," he said. They hate them.- : One thing that we (a group of American corres pondents released from internment in Italy) did all agree on was this: that Italians cordially disliked the Germans and that this dislike was no tempor- - xy disagreement arising out of the strain of the present war, but inherent, deep-rooted in the past, when waves of German conquerors periodically swept over the Italian peninsula; and intensified by the dissimilarity of the German and Italian temperaments . . . - Even most of the fascists bitterly resented the way the nazis had moved in and taken control oft all of Italy i . . Party leaders already realized that the inability ter win decisive victories without Ger man aid was going to weigh against Italy in any , division of axis spoils ... Mussolini himself was reputed to be worried about this aspect of the sit- , uation: that Italy would have ruined herself econo mically and spilled much blood only to have very; little reward for her effort in the end, because his -armed forces had not been equal to the plans he had Conceived for them, i i The fact remains that there is a huge Anglo American fifth column in Italy, many millions strong, a great potential source of aid to us if we can only find a way to use it . 4 . And these fifth columnists would be willing to work for us if we ; were to give them help, but they are not going to rise up and risk being killed in a revolt; that does not have at least a 75 per cent chance of success . . . The Italians are an extremely old and disillu sioned race which has already lived through every - known phase of human development, 1 including triumphs decadence, and disappointment ... Now . - they have turned to and prefer the simple life. ; They work hard, go to bed early, drinkyvery little, smoke very little, come;, home for dinner, go to church on Sunday mornings, and take a stroll' in the park on Sunday afternoons ... But because Italians prefer the simple life does not mean they are simple-minded. On the contrary, they are his torically over-sophisticated and ultra-cynical. Four teen hundred years of living under various conquer ors of one race or another has rubbed out much f : of their idealism. Such fighting words a 'liberty and "democracy' which so stir American blood, leave Italians unmoved. They are inclined to look out first and foremost for; their skins and worry,; about moral principles afterward . V . '-. I ? Our Italian fifth column will certainly never re- revolt if they think Russia will have f anything whatsoever to do with the occupation. The same is true of the peoples of all the smaller countries allied to the axis. It is even, true of the Germans themselves. We believe that a - second front will ; never divert a serious number of troops -from the Russian front on this account ... If the Germans ever believe they are hopelessly beaten,: they will . try to hold the Russian line and let the Americans and English occupy their country.. from "Balcony Empire by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard. American and British occupation forces, the dispatches say, have been -welcomed with open arms and rejoicing in Sicily. Such an event was forecast, as the reader will have noted, by the Packards in their book written just a year ago. I It is enlightening to read that our invaders' welcome there is not, at least for the most part, a reaction of defeatism culminating in the actu-, ality of defeat. On the contrary our forces are welcomed as deliverers. 1 , If the Packards analysis is correct, a similar welcome awaits us on the Italian mainland wherever the nazis and fascists are cleared out and it will be a sincere welcome, though not too profound. To understand their reactions it is necessary to understand the Italians. . They are individualists, who never were en thusiastic about fascism. It was tolerable only because they were a patient people, and little interested in politics. After all, Italy isn't Eng land or America. 'There'll always be an Eng land." There never has been an Italy, political ly speaking. Something in the form .of a na tion was created less than a century ago; only yesterday, as history measures time. A notion needs pride; Italy in its brief national existence hasn'f accumulated much I cause for J national pride. American-British invasion doesn't shat ter anything Italians hold dear; on the contrary ' it spells as our jChief spokesmen's messages have : truthfully stated deliverance. Let's not scorn the Italians if they are smart enough to recognize it. . . : ; .- , . The fingers of the American air force are long, and now they are, reaching out long dis- - tances. Monday they reached from a base in the Aleutians to Paramushiro, northerly base in the Jap-owned Kurile islands. They reached a thousand miles from southwest bases to bomb' Macassar hi .the Dutch East! Indies. It is as though the operations were from the fingers Of each-hand, reaching farther and farther to grip the .very throat of Japan. These raids will be followed up by more planes with greater weight -of explosives.. The fingers through the air will creep down the Kurile chain, and up the islands off southeast Asia, until they join in doing ha voc to the home islands of Japan. Vice Admiral Home says the navy is pre paring for at six-year war against Japan. It may .take that long; but it would seem when we can throw all our naval and air weight into the Pacific war the end will come more quickly. This raid, from an -American land base, on true Japanese territory, even though Paramushiro iT12CD miles from Tokyo, is particularly gratify ing es a follow-up of the Doolittle. raid on Tokyo . in April, IS 42. The Japs themselves must see the "movies finger writing -their doom in. bomb-traced letters in. the sky. Values are funny, things, always changing. Here a melon (cantaloupe) is worth nearly two - packs of cigarettes (20 to the pack). In Sicily the rate of exchange between American sol- , diers is one melon for one cigarette. That shows how long it has been between smokes for the, Sicilians. : -- '-.-M -xr :-. v -ii'A ,- By MAJ. GEN. DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS, Military authority and former president of tha University of California . - v,' Editor's Note: Paul Mailon is on vacation. . In his absence,' Ma j. Gen. Barrows' column will : appear in this 'space several times weekly, al- " ternating with other material. Mailon will be "on the job again August 3. ". " Warfare in the1 Jungle - Our troops in New Guinea and the Solomons are experiencing combat under the trying conditions imposed by the tropical forest. I have bad some experience myself with the oppressive and diffi cult conditions that i the prodigious sylva of the - tropics imposes on both life and movement within its dark shadow, j , . " " ! i. The trees of such a forest are, many of them, of the finest hardwood. They rise to lofty heights with bare trunks orj boles, and only I a hundred, feet above the ground do they break out with branches and foliage which so intertwine that they . form a lofty, dark umbrella that adds to the gloom. Beneath these tall ' trees, and forming a distinct mass of vegetation," is the veritable jungle; it en tangles the soil with an impenetrable and hostile cover of forbidding vegetation.- ; - it; . j Everywhere that I have seen this tropical forest it impresses me with its uniformity. 'I have tra versed it in Malaysia, in Central America, and in Africa where it Is a belt 150 to 200 miles wide that encircles the' Gulf of Guinea and finally mer ges with the forest of the Congo. In South Ameri , ca the enormous forest of the Amazon divides that continent far more' completely than do the lofty ranges of the Andes mountains. : ' ;' ;;;fcj- If no trails exist : through this tropical : forest, the stony bed of a rushing stream, pouring" down . a valley to the sea, is the only traversible way. One splashes, slips and clambers up ' this stream bed, with vines! arid ; prickly lianas, frequently - tangling with his head and body, and progress is ' slow. With energy and good fortune, one may make a dubious mile an hour. Where man has to traverse ' the jungle, he slashes a rude footpath, but this may be so hidden, winding and obscure that it can be followed only with help of a native guide. fj . In the deep jungle there is almost no life of any kind. I have pushed through it for days at a time and seen not a living thing; not an insect, nor a rodent, nor even a reptile. The python, one of the greatest of snakes. Is found-In the jungles of the eastern archipelago, but I think only where he can find his food, which seems to be the wild 'pig and the deer. In the jungle where such prey lives, the python grows to extraordinary size.' He has no poi-" son sae but he has fangs with which he seizes the victim as he encircles his coils. I know of one in stance where a python struck and badly lacerated a man's shoulder before it was killed. f While this great snake is indigenous in the east ern archipelago, I am not informed as to its pre cise range. If the python is to be found in the for ests of New Guinea and the Solomon islands, we may expect to hear some remarkable snake stories when our boys come home.-; j -;-iv" - There are few flowers In the tropical forest Oc casionally rare and beautiful orchids may lighten the uniform mass of ereen with soft color and ra ' shapes that delight the eye. But while common in some spots, one may go days without seeing orchids or any other flowers.' -.; -,- ;: - - : lj .w The soil in the tropical forest is uniformly moist. It steams. The atmosphere is not only hot and hu mid, but there is almost no circulation of air. Even the winds do not seem to send their breath through the Indescribable wind-break of the forest itself. ' The tropical forest Is a quiet coven.lt is singu larly and depressingly stOL Only the luxuriant vegetation which blocks one's every movement, and which spreads irresistably and flourishes amazingly by reason of the warmth and dampness, saves one from the Impression that nature is not only silent but sleeping. 1 l What can be said for the human inhabitants of .the tropical forest? The real jungle has almost no human ' denizens. But along stream banks or - in spots where the forest thins out, and one can see the sky, or where man has made uncertain and temporary conquests over it, there may be human life. On the whole, dwellers in the tropical forest ; are very few, and they are always primitive and ' very lowly. Such are the sparsely scattered In dians of the forests of the Amazon. Where the for est is dominant men leave it largely alone. If there are adjacent islets, more open and more salubrious, even hough they be small, man makes his home on these. Thus the great island of New Guinea, a , thousand miles long, the first island in size of the whole world, if we except Greenland, pos sesses a very small population in proportion to its great size. ' k , Contrasted .to New Guinea where the Australian soldiers and our own have been battling the jungle as well as the Japanese, and found maneuver im possible and movement very slow, 'arduous and dangerous, the small Islands of the Trobriand group to the east of Papua, are thickly inhabited by an interesting race of Melanesiahs. : Correspondents who accompanied our soldiers who have just land ed on these islands speak of the delight : felt by veterans of New Guinea jungles in the open park like woods and luxuriant, cultivated fields of this small paradise. This may seem a dark picture that I have given of the tropical forest. It is gloomy.-Twilight and darkness envelop it, but it is the tropical forest as I have experienced it, and knowing the difficul ties of movement and of sustaining ute in a green, dripping wilderness in which there is practically no food, memories give me a sense of the physical conditions under which our own men liave been battling the Japanese. These conditions . in i large part prevailed through ' the Owen Stanley moun tains, from Moresby across to Buna, where the Japanese attempt to attack failed. I have it from an officer who has recently vis ited this wild country, that when the Australians pushed over the crest of this high mountain range, the Japanese resistance had already ended. They found the dead and dying stragglers! of the Jap anes retreat lying In numbers along the trail. Many of them had starved. Many others had ex pired under the hardships of the junsle or suc cumbed to the diseases that spread throush a com pany of men unskilled in the ways of the forest, ; susceptible to its contagion, and unable to resist its tormenting obstinacy and its dread loneliness" and hostility. ' . ;-k -.-v-' ..v.1.-" 1 I . II 1 at in . . BaBk. ' M M III - w Akirr! V., kyiy ' 5KY " SfTV . a t-rt u Mm r- m ... amav - pi Xa, . "ffc. ll 1 Tf ; e. " W f V. i V The Mountain Comes to Mussolini'. dlay9s CadlD JPiregiraiiuiiG KSLM WBONBSDAT 1XM Ka. TSRiM V Sbtna f JO Nw . 7 :4 Morning Moods. ' 80 Cherry Oty Maws. -S JO Tango Tuna. 35 Tango Tlm -: S.-00 Pastors CaU , :1S Uncle Sam - - to Popular Muala 10o News. 10:05 A Song and a Dane 10 JO Music. . 110 News. : 115 Music. 1130 Hits of Yesteryear. ' 12 0 OrganaUtlea , 12:15 Newt - -. 13:30 Hillbilly Serenade ,; 1235 Mannee. 10 Orchestra. - 120 Mai HaUet's Orchestra. 130 MiJady's Melodiea. - , . 1 :45 Spotlight oar Rhythm. . 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' 8:15 Dick Tracy. 830 Jack Armstroag 5:45 Archie Andrews. ' 60 Hop Harrigan . 6:15 News 6 35 Victor Borge. 430 SpoOifht Bands 635 Sports. . 70 Swing. ' 7 J0 Music. - 7:43 This Is Your Business. 80 Music. 8:15 Lum and Abner 830 Manhattan at Midnight 80 John Freedom , :. 830 News 10:15 Alee Templeton. 9:45 Down Memory Lane 1030 I. Broadway Bandwagon 10:45 Music. , 110 Matinee. ;7 1130 Music , SEX BN WEDNESDAY II88 K. 6-00 We're Up Too. Interpreting The Vlfar Weivs ; By KIRKE L. SIMPSON . AP War Analytst (or The SUtesman The canker of disaffection is gnawing so ravenously at Italy that Anglo - American strategic directive for the. Mediterranean ' front 'may already be outmoded by events. " It would cause no surprise if allied military staffs should hold a meeting in the near future to reshape and speed up the At tack plans. The campaign ! that has all but pried Sicily , loose from the axis grip ' and shaken mainland Italy has taken a mat ter of days Instead of weeks. It was mapped before Tunisia started to blow up in a sudden collapse of axis - resistance. The underside of the axis has proved far softer at the first test than Prime Minister Chur chill possibly could have 'fore seen last November when - he coined the phase to epitomize allied strategy in seizure of . French African bases. If It leads quickly - to internal Italian : dis- i intergration, further revision of the Anglo-American battle plans - to take prompt advantage of that break would seem -indi-cated. - And the chances that , it will are ' reflected .in - Italian troop mutinies in Sicily "and whole sale surrenders. .., There is every reason to be lieve that the allies are already busy i with schemes to cut the time lag further In pushing the attack on : the foe promptly, in . conjunction with the widening Russian offensive. These plans probably deal not only Nw 1 1 h Europe hut , more distant - war theatres upon which current events A in ; the Mediterranean have i an important bearing. : The fast-paced rush of larger actions in Europe has tended to obscure the hardly less signi ficant developments in the far 'Pacific." -,;; - ; ;J-i;: A reshaping and acceleration of the 'MacArthur-led ; sea-air-ground , attack, now spreading over a 1,000-mile long east-west "front from the Strait of Makas sar between Borneo and the Celebes to the northern Solo- mons, seems likely to take ad - vantage of that development. The.' American-Australian of fensive in . the Solomons-New : Guinea area appears to be pri marily an' attrition' maneuver ' and j if that Is true lit has al ready been startlingly' success fuL The enemy has lost a score or more warcraft and many score planes as against relatively. Inconsequential losses : in either category. Yet he has not dared risk; his main fleet strength in a sea action that could be de cisive. - Tokyo has refused what ' Ghurchill called, "the supreme challenge' of sea power, which argues that 'Japanese war lords, know it could mean only de feat . , J The Japanese Island perimeter7 . now. being probed discloses the lack also of adequate plane , strength.. There has been much ' evidence, of enemy air establish " menb ; set up in many places. f But i when the test came the planes were not : there. They could not be spared from other . fronts, 'including Japan itself, . or from Burma where by every sign a massive British sea-air-. ground offensive is brewing for the post wet-Monsoon period In falL r t The pinch of the tragic too v lihle and too late shoe is on the other 'foot now In the far "Pacific .Tokyo 1 1 h u s far : sent small boys to market by air and sea, t endeavoring to : sneak re inforcements orj supplies to be- . leaguered garrisons at Munda or in New Guinea,! or trying to dis rupt the allied attack by In adequate air formations. It has paid a. heavy price for that ,in ships ; and lives and there is every indication Japan can not replace her air and sea losses. As she dare not risk her main fleet The only, alterna tive is to shorten her defense ( lines. That would mean retreat, . and ; the beginning of the end for Japan, as an Italian collapse must mean the beginning of the end for nazl Germany. By I.IAX LONG KOIN CBS WEDNESDAY 876 Ke. 60 Northwest Farm Reporter 6:15 Breakfast Bulletin . 630 Texas Rangers 6:45 KOIN Kiock T:15 New .!! 80 Consumer News - . 8:15 Valiant Lady . 830 Stories' America Loves 845 Aunt Jenny .80 Kate Smith Speaks . 6:15 Bie Sister 630 Romance of Helen Treat 8:45 Our Gal Sunday 100 Life Can Be Beautiful - 10:15 Ma Perkins - - 1030 Vic and Sade . 16:45 The Goldbergs 110 Young Dr. MaJona . 11:15 Joyce Jordan ' f 1130 We Love and Learn 11 MS News 12:15 News' 1830 William Winter. News IS 45 Bachelor's Children 10 Home Front Reporter. 130 Uncle Sam.7 80 Newspaper of the Air S :30 This Life b Mine. 8:45 Keep the Home Fires Burning, i J.-Ot News. , S:15 Today at the Duncan's. 830 Music. .345 World Today. - 40 Raffles. 4:15 Sam Hayes - x 430 Easy Aces 4:45 Tracer of Lost Persons 50 Music. 8:15 Mother and Dad. 530 Harry Flasunery 545 News 535 CecU Brown . ' 60 Winner Takes AH. - - 630 Jack Carson. 70 Greet Moments in Musts T30 Timber. . . ' 801 Love a. 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Women 11 CO The Guiding Lirnt ' 1145 Hymns of AH Churches 11 -co Story of Uary Marlia 12:15 Ma Perkins ' lIX'Per.te Young's Famfly ; 1245 Ristt -tw Hw"olnese - ;v-' 1 Bsckstjure Vae ' g . :' 1:15 Stella lIlas ; . 1:: liOrenxo Jones , , l:i Young WiddeT Brows . 2:l When a Girl Marries -- 2:15 Portia Faces Liie 2:.' Wnst Pim E !l 2: front Paje tarreD. -3.1 r ad t Life 3:15 Vic and Sade 3 :i Music . . ' 3:4$ Judy and Jane . , 4x ) Dr. Kate. 4:15 News f the World . 4iJ Caribbean h;'hts. " . 4r!$ H. V. Kalter forn. iXJl. Personalty Hour. CTiapter 3 Continued ; T;ice, eh? Dud J queried with' satJ-fictica. . , I screed with enthusiasm, and added, "It must be the seepage from this pool that wets the sand -where I beached my dinghy." ,Turr.ir.2 to verify that, I saw that the beach bar completely hid the bay and my sampan. Cociing down the slope toward -us was Joseph West and a lean young . man '.with powerful shoulders, dressed like herself ' for swimming. This, I learned -was her - husband, Thornton West. 1 1:--, y We've . been on the beach looking at your sampan, he told me. Trim little boat I had one ; once.' That tackle and boom are for lowering your dinghy, I pre sume. v. i ";'"'. : u v- "Yes. Iwleave it -rigged over the side as a mooring post for the dinghy so my new blue . paint won't get rubbed.1! . I don't remember all our chat ter, but I am trying to set down things which . had . a . bearing on , later developments. I admired Thornton West for his splendid , physique. He had a handsome face, too, deeply tanned, a maoe f ot fair hair and keen blue eyes, 1 and a' cleft ih his chin which . somehow only added strength to . his ' features. But- there were , lines of worry or concentration in his face which didn't seem to belong to a completely relaxed colonist He was a fine comple ment, . though, ; to the . duskily beautiful girl who was his wife. That was what made , the next encounter so puzzling. " . . . Josephine turned away from - us to call out gainly, "Hi, Faro- ous! .and I saw another man approaching from the direction of the houses.' A big man, as ' tall as Thornton West but not so well set up. There was a flab-' biness about this one, a paunch . (though -1 am a poor one to " speak of paunches, however thin I am otherwise) and he had a , dark, heavy-jowled, ' self-indulgent face. I " "Hi, Beautiful!" he came back at Josephine, and I recognized his voice as that of the man in . the Delmar house. As he came ' up , he put his arm familiarly . about her shoulders. " Josephine smiled provocatively up at him. Her husband threw her a sharp, : irritated glance and turned in stantly to talk to Budd. I sensed a little intrigue ' going on and rather wondered at it. Thornton ; was so much the more attractive of the two men. 1 ; Delmar, keeping his arm about Josephine, announced: " The play's finished to "the very last word." " , f The loungers on the sand did not cheer. I guessed that they were bored with the subject. ' But they were not allowed to ig- , nore it, for. Mrs. Delmar came hurrying up and began talking -about it, paying no manner of attention to Delmar and Jose- -phine. . - y i ' : - "It's really better, she said, . sinking down beside Budd, "than Gray Magic ; ' Budd said, "I'm glad you think It's good, Bessie. You've worked so long and so desperately to make another success' Her round face sagged sud denly. "It's been awful - but ; Bronson finally came up to the . scratch! : ;: J "What's the theme of this one, Mrs. Delmar? I asked for the : sake of politeness, certainly with no particular interest.. Her lips stretched again in that smile that was not a smile, and the others laughed. Turva .said accusingly, "They won't tell 530 Commentator. I 645 Louie P. 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I t!.:..k they're afraid well steal the idea." .. I.Irs. Dzlrr.zr shock ter trir.ila head. '27 vvhst ycu will, it's bad luck to tell your story be fore It's down on paper. Any writer will tell you that!" Chapter Fccr Herb sat up purposefully. "There come Doc and his folks now "we can get down to a good hard swim." I saw a lank youngish man and an elderly woman approach ing and asked, "Do you mean to say you have a medico here?" Budd said, "It wouldn't be safe not to have," and Thornton West added,: "Great piece of luck to have Latham he's here for the health of a member of his family." The doctor , had on a bathing suit, but the gray-haired wom anwho turned out to be his 1 mother was evidently taking no orders from Herb: she was dressed . in a comfortable ' blue house dress and wore not only sensible shoes, .but stockings. They were a pleasant-looking pair though,' like the others, they both looked me over pretty sharply. Dr. Latham . had a homely face with a rugged kind of strength' as well as a certain sadness in it, and a loose-limbed , way of moving which was quick but awkward. His mother was a sturdy type there was appar ently nothing the matter with her health and she looked de pendable in ;. an old-fashioned way, ; like farm women I had known .in my childhood. She -said with a; smile that took away any sting In the words: - "So ' your're loafing, too, Mr. Hoyt? My,, I'd rather be busy, even If it was getting up my . own'. coal from .the cellar!" She looked severely at Herb. "I don't take my exercise any set hour nor to the bang of a drum, eith er." 1 ... V - I 4 Herb waved a plump apologe tic hand and said plaintively, "It was just an idea," and Mrs. La- tham 1 laughed and sat down be side him In the sand. (To be continued) 'HtXi lOTiij: (Continued from Page 1) - operators stepping up and tak ing their places. . "I've barely touched the whole picture remember these are Just some of the minor hard ships, and yet it's absolutely unbelievable nn believable we haven't found it necessary to have a sick call for four months. I have yet to hear a whole-hearted intentional beef from an. officer or man in the outfit. Their whole philosophy of life seems to be, We do what we have to do. We're all in the same boat, so what the hell!' You never saw such a happy- ; go-lucky, laughing, joking, de termined to-do-t h e-job-or-die (and I do mean die) bunch of men in your life. So if any ; 'Joes around your outfit start crying because the pork chops are only done J on one side you might ask them polite-like, how many times they've been blown out from under their mess kit hy German 105 m.m. shell during the last week. Yup, sure strange how a few bombs land-, ing in ' your! soup will change your ideas of what's rough ana) what's Just everyday life." : Similar reports have come out of the South Pacific, descriptiva of the Jungle fighting our men : have engaged in. r Do I need, "to point a moral or adorn a tale?" How trivial and utterly- Inconsequential have been the sacrifices we home fronters have been called on to make, in the face of what the men in North Africa or on Gaudalcanal or on Attu have endured! No beef roast today? No silk or nylon hosiery? An other government form to fill out? A flat tire? A price ceiling on wages or products? A crowd ed stage or train? No lunch in the diner? Only three pairs of 'shoes a year? Taxes to pay and bonds to buy? Hard to get help : in kitchen or factory? 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