Education: Fun With a Gas Mask

For some five years, preparation for war has been part of the education of every child in Europe. Last week Europe's children carried out their M-Day assignments.

Paris began to evacuate its children to the country on Wednesday. Carrying dolls, knapsacks and Government-supplied gas masks, young Parisians, with their mothers, crowded the railroad stations, whooped and scampered, set off in trains and taxis for safety zones, where many a Parisian family had prudently rented and provisioned a shelter in advance.

For Berlin's children there was no evacuation....

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