Army & Navy - To Soldiers' Wives

A thousand clamoring Englishwomen crowded London's small Caxton Hall. They demanded immediate transportation to the U.S. They were brides of U.S. servicemen, and they spoke for 40,000 others, all necessarily left behind in the redeployment rush. Many had babies. Many were hard up. Many were just desperately lonely. All wanted space on westbound ships.

To mollify this crowd the U.S. Embassy sent grey-haired Commander Herbert Agar, U.S.N.R., looking like the young Dante in a Navy uniform. Herbert Agar, onetime editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the past two and a half years a special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Winant, has long...

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