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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, November 19, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 2—No. 10 Fri., November 19, 1943
Published weekly at the U. S. Navy Pre-
Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., under super
vision of the Public Relations Office. Contri
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CoMDR. John P. Graff, USN (Ret.)
Commanding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. P. 0. Brewer, USNR
Public Relations Officer
Editor: Lt. (jg) Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Associate Editor: Orville Campbell, Y2c
By George J. Grewenow
Chaplain Corps, USNR
Thanksgiving 1621-1943
Starvation faced the little band of Pilgrims
huddled together on the bleak New England
hillside. Thirty-one graves were grim re
minders of the winter past and the meagre
stores of a scant harvest were gi’im forebod
ings of the winter ahead. It was proposed
that a day be set aside for the giving of
thanks. On the designated day a dish of
clams and a glass of cold water wei*e set
before Elder Brewster. He lifted his eyes
toward heaven and gave thanks.
This year—listing them at random—^we
have; the greatest production of material
things our country has known; a New York
department store recording profits five times
that of any other year; a fur shop advertis
ing: “We have sold more mink coats this
year than in any previous year”; a 21%
increase hog butchering; a 10% increase in
the orange crop; etc., etc.
W"as it the scarcity of things in 1621 and
is it the abundance of things in 1943 that
makes thanksgiving? Scarcely that. Rather
it is the mercy of our God abundant in days
of adversity as well as in days of prosperity.
It is the eternal promise, “Fear thou not;
for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I
am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I
will.hplp thee; yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my righteousness. Behold,
all they that were incensed against thee shall
be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall
perish.”
Herein lies the thanksgiving of every vear!
Book Reviews ...
From the Land of Silent People by Robert
St. John. Halcyon House, Garden City, New
York, 1943, 353 pp.
As a youngster in World War I, Robert St.
John began his wandering career swabbing
decks in the transport service of the U. S.
Navy. During succeeding years, as a journal
ist, he has literally covered the world with
particular emphasis on the international polit
ical scene. Few writers have his familiarity
with the tangled skein of Balkan relationships.
He was heard on this subject recently over the
CBS University of Chicago round table. A
realist, a keen observer with a deftness of de-
sci’iption comparable to Richard Harding
Davis, he unfolds his tale of the “Silent
People” of southeastern Europe, a graphic
“action picture” covering but a few weeks and
detailing incidents from Belgrade to the Greek
peninsula during the Nazi invasion.
St. John’s diary begins at Belgrade in April
1941 as bombs rained on the doomed city. It
continues through Sarajevo where nearly
thirty years ago, the assassination of an Aus
trian Archduke ignited the flame of the other
war; thence on to Budva on the Yugo-SIavian
coast of the Adriatic and by small boat to
Corfu, Petras, Argos, Crete, eventually to re
spite at Alexandria, Egypt, where war seemed
distant, unreal, almost non-existent in the
splendor of the Majestic Hotel where women
in organdy and men in white linen suits
danced on roof gardens and leisurely sipped
cocktails, with the soi'did side of war among
the “unrnentionables.”
In conclusion, he comments:
“I didn’t make pleasant remarks in my nar
rative. . . . But I have told j^ou now all that
I saw and heard and smelled, and just a bit
of what I thought, during a few weeks of war.
This book will not please you. Yet it will
inspire the thinking process, and nearly every
American who reads it will be inclined to
tighten the belt with a determination that
these things may not happen again.
—Reviewed by Lieut. Ray C. Witter, USNR
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