Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1940 — Page 9

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Plane Delays

' WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—To changes the German’s made in their planes and tactics following their

great losses over England last summer may be traced,

"in part, two disturbing sets of circumstances: The Amminent peril of England and the recent delays in -- American production of aircraft. ‘After the Germans found they were sure to lose too many planes in attacking England they began armoring their ships still more heavily, as well as to train their crews in night flying. The long British respite in the summer ap- . pears to have been attributable directly to these reconsiderations. ‘The British then commenced putting more and heavier guns into the planes they were ordering in this country. The American Army also revised its ideas, giving more emphasis to the turret and veering somewhat to the British donception of the plane as a primary weapon rather than as merely a means of transporting guns and bombs to the point of greatest usefulness.

The accumulated effect of all these changes may be seen in -one direction in the increased devastation in England and the smaller destruction of German planes, and in the other direction in the disappointment over the progress of aircraft production in this country.

The Knudsen Forecast

Much else was happening at the same time, to be,

sure, which would explain why the British were - having tougher going. Among the new circumstances was their decision to stake so nifuch on the Mediterranean campaign. The changes in German planes and their management, none the less, account for a - great deal of what has been going on in England, Canada and the United States. They account, incidentally, for the separate wave of dismay over recent aircraft production in Canada. The changes in the public forecasts of William S. - Knudsen alone have been startling. In a broadcast ‘Aug. 8 he said the then current production was 900

A NEW POLICE STATION FOR Indianapolis in 1941 appears to be ‘a good bet.” There isn’t much money around for improvements because of that

pesky $1,000,000 budget error. But several influential civic leaders have banded together to boost the project. And although he'd be the last to mention it, Mayor Sullivan probably would like to leave at least one monument to his eight years as chief executive. There aren't any yet and a new Headquarters appears to be his best chance, Behind the move also is hitherto unpublished official concern over the inadequacy of the present 19th century structure to meet police requirements of the future.. Despite continual jig-saw remodeling, the building hampers police efficiency even now. What - would happen, officials’ wonder, if Indianapolis had a strong dose of serious trouble and it were necessary to keep police on the 24-hour alert. There are no barracks to house policemen downtown. There isn't even room for an officer to change his clothes or wash up. Now, with Indianapolis one of the centers of defense industry, officials feel that we need modern headquarters. Looking ahead, they want to ue ready If real trouble comes. They're hoping it doesn't, but are firm believers in the “stitch-in-time” theory.

Two Shipwrecked Hoosiers

TWO INDIANAPOLIS BOYS will have quite a story to tell when they get back home. They were aboard the oil tanker Charles Pratt, sunk off the coast of Africa four days before Christmas. The details haven't come out yet, but it’s believed the ship, carrying five million gallons of oil,. was torpedoed. It was flying the flag of Panama.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Peace talk that comes from distinguished Senators sounds geod to the ear. It appeals to all of us who are sickened at the slaughter of innocent civilians and the destruction of

their homes. It touches the deepest wishes of everyone. But against the hard realities, this talk doesn’t make sense. Senator Tydings of Maryland asks that the United States make inquiries to determine if “a peace with - justice” could be obtained. Senator Wheeler of Montana asks this Government to “insist that a just peace be worked out,” and he would put the heat on before giving more aid to Britain. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan asks this Government to ascertain whether there exists a basis for a “rational peace,” and , suggests that the United States make it “generally ‘understood that the price of a refusal to accept a Just and realistic formula might be our own powerfully enlarged activity.” All this is just so many soothing, well-wishing, but meaningless words. These are gestures that appeal ‘to our hearts but not to our heads. They are in the same class with the famous Ford peace ship that went to Europe.in 1915 to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas. ;

Fine Sounding Phrases

What would be a peace with justice, a just peace, a raticnal peace? Would it be Hitler's idea of a just peace? Or Churchill's? Or our own? Does Sena- - tor Vandenberg mean what he seems to say, which is - that the United States should go to war against the + gide that refuses, to accept rational peace terms? -We would have to be, in that case, the judge of what constituted rational peace terms. Senator Vandenberg has been an isolationist. For years he has shuddered at the thought of our becoming involved in Europe. Now he apparently wants us to dictate the peace terms and to go to war against the side that rejects them.

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Sunday.—I don't know whether any of you are reading about Ernie Pyle’s trip to England with as much interest as I am, but I have read everything since he left, and one paragraph stuck in my mind. Speaking of what an English friend told him about the English people, Ernie Pyle remarks: “He says the war has done a lot for the English character. He says it has drawn people together, made them prouder of each other, made them humbler within themselves, and hence, both mellower and stronger.” That combination of humility and pride is a great achievement. Humility as regards oneself and pride in other human beings who ‘make up your people—what a great leveler of artificial distinctions! Friday was a rather quiet day at the White House and I had an opportunity to pay a call on one of my godchildren, Ruth Eleanor Armstrong. She and her twin brother are very attractive youngsters, and they certainly were having a grand time with their Christmas toys. _ Saturday found me in New York City doing a num- - ber of errands before going out to spend a little while at the joint conference held by the International Students Service and the National Student Federation at the New Jersey State College for Women. La 2 : v

By John W. Love

planes a month and that by Jan. 1, 1941, it would have risen to 1500. On Oct. 8 he told the Army Ordnance Assn. that this country would get 900 to 950 planes

in October and 1250 s month by Jan. 1. On Dec.

13 he told t'# National Association of Manuteeiurers that expectations of 1000 planes a month for Jan. 1 would have to be scaled down by 30 per cent. A curiosity of the times has been that in the same span of five months the plans for future production were very greatly enlarged, until the current program on paper appears to embrace some 125,000 planes. It is true that planes are hard to compare with planes, and this is in part the key to the apparent decline in production: Each month the planes have become more elaborate and expensive.

Stabilized Point Nears

If the accomplishments of the industry could be expressed publicly in dollars, as formerly they were, the “silly, foolish dollars’ would look much better. Additional dollars do track to a considerable extent with the extra effort put into the planes, effort on the part of armorers, gunsmiths and so on, as well as that of the technicians working to re-engineer the ships. \ The best evidence supporting this explanation of what has been happening is the fact that over and above all the bottlenecks and ‘‘choke points” in production of aircraft are the important changes in design made by the Army and Navy. These are the direct result of the day-by-day and night-by-night fighting experience in Europe, possibly also that in Africa. Nobody ,in Washington makes any bones about these causes being chiefly to blame for the disappointing rate of progress in numbers of planes produced. Their existence as far back as last spring explains the skepticism in some Army quarters over the later plans for very large construction of standardized planes. Men in charge of defense expect that a stabilized point of development will be reached quickly. And they are aware of the need for following a principle expressed by Charles F. Kettering of General Motors: “In this place we will experiment, in that one we will produce.”

Inside Indianapolis (Ard “Our Town’)

The local sailors aboard were Everett Dye, 24, and his brother, Paul, 22. Arthur Kunkle, of 240 S. Walcott St.,, who has known the boys since they were babies, says they've always been adventurers. Both are 6-footers and graduates of Tech high school. Their parents have moved to El Paso, Tex. About five years ago, they rigged a 14-foot canoe with one sail and, guiding the craft with a paddle, went down the Mississippi to New Orleans. From there they shipped out to sea on freighters. The Charles Pratt was the first boat they'd worked on together, Everett as an assistant engineer and Paul as a wiper. Mr. Kunkle last heard from them in Aruba, Netherland West Indies, and they were looking forward to Christmas in Freetown, Africa. That's only a few miles from where their ship went down.

A New Song by Mr. Teetor

MACY O. TEETOR, Perfect Circle Co. official, has turned out a new song hit, “I Saw You First.” Music is Mr. Teetor’s top hobby, and this isn’t his first tune success. A few years ago his “Lost” was a best-seller. His latest was one of nine chosen for recognition by a Song Hit Guild committee composed of Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Billy Rose and Kay Kyser. .

- Taking no chances, the Army ordered plenty of tur-

keys for Christmas. They prepared to feed 120 boys in one company at Ft. Harrison. All but 40 of them got holiday leave, however. You'd think those left behind would be happy about the whole thing. As a matter of fact, they're a_little fed up on turkey, they've had it so many times and in so many different forms. ... Two exasperated women stood on a downtown sidewalk while the liveried chauffeur tried vainly to unhook the bumper of their Packard from the bumper of a car in the rear. An even larger Packard pulled up alongside, A pretty girl climbed out, assisted the chauffeur by leaping up and down on one bumper while he pulled his car free. Then she jumped back in her car and drove away. Nary a word was spoken.

By Raymond Clapper

Of course Senator Vandenberg doesn’t mean what he seems to say. He is just tossing fine-sounding words ‘around without really thinking about their actual meaning in this situation. Hitler has told his people he will crush Britain. During Christmas the top Nazis promised - anew to bring home the carcass of old John Bull. Preparations are going forward for the effort. Is Hitler going to call the whole thing off and let the British go scot free by making a big-hearted peace with Churchill? Senators who have been in as many tough political fights as Wheeler, Tydings and Vandenberg should know better. Germany still has the initiative. Hitler would be a sap, from his own point of view, to let the British off now when the whole future of Germany is built upon the dream of smashing British seapower and building an empire. He was glad to let the British have Munich because he needed more time. Now time runs against him and he must win before American production comes into its full power.

England’s Only Chance

England knows that no mercy can be expected from Hitler. She has the option of surrendering without a fight, or of taking the one chance left of escaping slavery. That one chance is to fight, to hold on, to demonstrate that Hitler cannot crush her. Once England has shown that Hitler's most carefully prepared attack cannot conquer the island, then and

only then will England be able to talk terms with|

Hitler as an equal, Then it will have been demonstrated that there are limits to military conquest. Then it will have been made clear that the most powerful military force the world has ever seen cannot go farther than the water's edge. Seapower will again stand supreme. No nation protected by water will need fear invasion. Land power will have found the line beyond which it cannot go, though having numerical superiority and incredible ingenuity and skill. Then will there be, paid for by England’s terrible suffering and courage, the basis for future world peace, for organizing the seapower of the world in the hands of democratic peoples so that the free life we all cherish will be safe once more.

By Eleanor Rocsevelt

I find myself at present in a most unique position. A certain number of papers including the Ku-Klux Klan paper of Atlanta, Georgia, accuse me of supporting the Communists because I have made some contributions to & very excellent labor school in Tennessee and I have also subscribed to the Oklahoma branch of the Civil Liberties Union. On the other hand, some of the Communist papers are accusing me of trying to use certain youth organizations for dark purposes which are closely tied with Fascist work camps. I have never tried to use any organization, and where youth organizations are concerned, I have always felt that older people have an obligation to help them when their own beliefs allowed them to do so. I have never heard a Government official advocate a compulsory work camp of any kind. I still think a great many girls as well as boys would not only profit by a year of service for their country, but would gladly give this time at some fixed age. This is my own personal opinion, however, and I may be overestimating the desire of the boys and girls of this country to train themselves as well as to serve their nation. In any case, what I happen to believe has nothing whatsoever to do with what people who are actually responsible Government officials believe or do. I can only wish that I actually had half the influence which the extremes seem to attribute to me. I'd be glad|Mr to use it to achieve the preservation and improveint of Qenaracy oa it now exists in oUF land. :

88% Still Oppose U

60% Would Ignore Risk To Aid British

By Dr. George Gallup

PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 30.—Back in the spring of 1939—months before the outbreak of war in Europe —surveys of American public opinion showed that the people of the United States would have two basic desires in the event of a European conflict—first, to stay out of the war, and second, to render all possible assistance short of war to

Britain and her allies.

There have always been elements of paradox in this picture, of course. Could the United States actually lend her material assistance to Britain without being drawn into the fighting, too? In a crisis, which would prove to be the master-principle —the desire to stay out of war, or the desire to help Britain win? Throughout the last 16 months of war the two basic desires have remained constant, explaining much of the American attitude toward events in Europe.

Today, as the nation steers to-

ward the uncharted waters of 1941, surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion gave an illuminating picture of what ordinary citizens in all walks of life are thinking: 1. The vast majority of Americans sfill want the United States to “stay out.” In the latest Institute survey 88 per cent say they would vote against war today if the question were raised

in a nation-wide referendum; 12

per cent say they would vote to enter. Because of recent British successes, and because many think that our increased material assistance will turn the tide, the number favoring U. S. entrance is smaller today than at the height of the blitzkrieg last fall. 2. Meanwhile the. desire to aid Britain with materials has steadily increased. By a vote of 9 to 1 voters in a recent Institute survey said they favored more help for England, in order to assure a British victory. The American people have begun to include under “acts short of war” certain steps which they were not willing to take when the war began. 3. And finally, an increasing number of Americans have come to the conclusion that—of the two basic desires—it is more important to help England win, “even at the risk of getting into the war,” than to concentrate entirely on keeping out. 2 8 =» ONTH by month since the victory of the Nazis in Norway last spring the Institute has asked American voters: “Which of these two things do you think is the more important for the United States ‘to try to do—to keep out of war ourselves, or to help England win even at the risk of war?” Back in May—with the collapse of France still to come—the Institute found only 36 per cent saying it was “more important to help England,” while 64 per cent said it was more important to keep out. In the last survey, however, the replies are almost exactly reversed: More important to help ......60% More important to keep out..40

TRUCK TREATIES SOUGHT BY CLUB

Extension of Reciprocal Pacts Major Aim, Says Todd Stoops.

The extension of reciprocal trucking agreements between Indiana and other states is one of the Hoosier Motor Club’s main legislative objectives, Todd Stoops, Motor Club secretary-manager, announced today. Of 20 tentative legislative proposals submitted for the approval of Motor Club members, the abolition of truck traffic and ports-of-entry between states was the most popular, he said. “The impending truck war between Indiana and Kentucky is just one example of what can happen if states erect ports-of-entry at their boundaries and collect license fees and exact other requirements,” he said. “Unless the truck strife can be settled, it will prove costly to truckers.” State legislative bodies’ must

agree on reciprocal arrangements for trucks and other motor carriers, he said, to head off the trend to-

‘ward’ inter-state truck tariffs.

Another legislative proposal favored by a majority of club members is the two-year driver’s license for a $1 fee, Mr. Stoops explained that the oneyear driver's license system now in effect in Indiana is not general throughout the nation.

A good many states, he said, have indeterminate licenses or licenses which run for two and three years. Prior to 1933, the license in Indiana was issued for a period of not less than three years and the fee was only 25 cents. The change to a She. year license with a 50-cent jee, . Stoops said, was a result of the legislature's “mad scramble for tax

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Saying To Help Britain [ALF

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on ‘Keeping Out’

Oct. 1939—1st Month of War

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the war in Europe. The trend lines represent continuous surveys by the American Institute of Public Opinion on the questions of (1) greater aid ta Britain (2) whether it is more important for the United States to help England even at the risk of getting into the war, or more important to stay out, and (2) the niumber who favor U. S. entrance at this

time.

Institute interviewers found that it was a question on which virtually every person they talked to

“had a definite opinion. Only one

person in 50 (2%) said he was undecided. The trend on the question since May has been:

—More Important To— Help England Stay Even at Risk Out

May, 1940 .... 64% June 64 July .. 61 August ...... 53 September ... 48 October 50 December .... 40

With the exception of a brief period during the American Presidential campaign, when both Roosevelt and Willkie stressed peace for the U. S., the desire to help England, even at the risk of getting into war, has steadily increased.

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THER signs of growing American desire to aid Britain have been: (1) wide popular approval of the transfer of U. 8. planes to Britain (2) overwhelming popular indorsement of President Roosevelt's destroyer-for-bases deal, and (3) increasing

sentiment for repeal of the Johnson Act. | Whereas 65 per cent were against repeal of the Johnson Act in May, the picture was reversed by this month, when 55 per cent said they would favor repeal. Some kinds of assistance a ma-

jority of the American people are

still loath to give, however. Recently 60 per cent said they were against allowing American merchant ships to carry goods into the European war zones—a step

which would involve changes in the Neutrality Act. Outright sentiment for declaring war on Germany and Italy, which rose sharply last summer at the height of the German blitzkrieg, has declined coincident with the news of British successes in Libya and Greek victories over Mussolini's troops in the Balkans. Another factor in the decline of outright war sentiment, the survey shows, is the belief that increasing U. S. material aid will make military assistance unneces-. sary. 8 8 2

T is significant in this connection that, except for a short time after the fall of France, a majority of Americans have rightly or wrongly believed that Brittain would come out on top. In its “war vote” question the Institute asked: “If you were asked to vote on the question of the United States entering the war against Germany and Italy, how would you vote—to go into the war or to stay out of the war?”

Twelve per cent of those with opinions on the question said they would vote to have the United States go in—to take the initiative in declaring war on the Axis. Eighty-eight per cent said they would vote to stay out. Applied to the 50,000,000 Americans who cast their ballots in the

November Presidential election, this means that a war vote today would find about 6,000,000 voting for U. 8S. entrance, 44,000,000 against it.

‘Long Hair’ Musician Proves

He's a 'Hep Cat' af Heart

CLEVELAND, Dec. 30 (U. P.).— President Howard Hanson of the National Association of Schools of Mu-

{sic and a composer of serious works,

is adept in the terminology of swing music, notwithstanding his interest in more elevated forms of expression. Saturday, an interviewer, somewhat fearful of the reaction to his questions, decided to test Dr. Hanson’s knowledge of the language of swing. The composer, a director of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y., surprised the questioner: “What is boogie-woogie?” he was asked. “In serious music,” came the reply, “that is what we call basso obstinato, that is, the bass going all the time.” “Do you know what jive means?” “I imagine it means ‘going town’,” said the composer. The questioner thought up a hard one.

TARDY ALIENS URGED T0 COMPLY WITH ACT

All aliens who failed to register under - the Alien Registration Act should report. to the office of the chief postal bookkeeper, room 234, Federal Building, Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, said today. Registration facilities will be available there from 9 a. m. to 4

p. m. each week day and from 10 a. m. to noon on Saturdays. Mr. Seidensticker also warned that children of non-citizens: who have reached the age of 14 should report to the office to, be fingerprinted.

BRITISH SUB NOW IS NAZI BERLIN, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—Ger-

to [that one and

eM is a licorice stick?” a “A clarinet,” came the reply. “What is corn?” - “Something commonplace, obvious, a cadence or formula, overused.” “What does ‘ride-out’ mean?” “Improvisation, I suppose.” “A wood pile?” “Could that be a xylophone?” “What is the difference between a hep cat and an alligator?” Ar. Hanson admitted he was stumped, the questions were getting too technical, but the interviewer explained that a “hep cat” was merely one familiar with swing, although he wasn’t certain about “alligafor.” Mr. Hanson also failed on “honkle tonkle,” but it developed that the swing enthusiasts themselves are divided on the precise meaning of e doctor had a good rating just the same. “Imagine that,” he smiled, “I'm a hep cat.”

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Foremost Young

Women Named

BABSON PARK, Fla, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—America’s 10 outstanding young women were named today by Dean Helena B. Watts of the Roger Babson Financial School for Women. The list: Mildred H. McAfee, president of Wellesley College. Actress Helen Hayes. Clare Booth, playwright and author. Marion Anderson, singer. Anne Lindbergh, author and flier.

Marion I Harreon, member of U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, Deanna Durbin, motion picture ‘Alice Marble, tennis star. a Helen Flanders. Dunbar, physiColumbia

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The trend of sentiment for entering the war has been: : i Favor + Entrance October, 1939 (first month of war) June 2, 1940 (following Battle of Flanders) ol June 14 (following Italy’ s entrance) 1 July 6 (following collie of France 14 July 19 (following reorganization of British stfength in England) October (aerial blitzkrieg ol Britain) 17 December (following first British offensive gains of the war in Libya and Balhans) .......: aeaedtlane ao 12

Interviewing in the| atest sur=vey was completed before Americans read of warnings from Berlin about extending further help to the British--notakly warnings against turning over some of the interned merchant vessels in U. S. ports to the British. | Changes in U. S. war sentimenfi cannot be traced to the effect of German warnings, therefore. Indeed, it remains to be seen in future surveys whether these warnings will have the effect desired in Berlin,

or an opposite effect, a T is Interesting to note that the greatest American war sentiment has come when things have looked relatively dark for Britain. Thus, when the war began, and: when four Americans in every five thought PBritain and France would win, only one person in 20 was in favor of the U. S. entering the war, But when Eitler smashed his way to the English Channel in the spring two things happened:

PINBALL CASE UP FOR RULING

May Result in Lifting of Ban Which Now Prevents Police Interference.

What may prove hi first step in setting aside an injunction preventing police from interfering with pinball machines was to be taken in a Municipal Court hearing this afternoon. : Early yesterday police arrested the proprietor and- two patrons of a tavern following a disturbance which allegedly arose over refusal of the proprietor to pay a patron for several “hits.” 0 The disturbance occurred at the tavern at 150 W. 16th St., operated by Mrs. Eugenia Duney, according’ to police. They said Mrs. Doney refused to pay Clarence Studevent, 1723 N. Meridian St., 19 nickels he

said he had won in A series of hits on a pinball machine. Studevent and William Flohr, R R. 1, Whitestown, who said he had seen Studevent win and lose money on the machine ard himself had played the machine, were arrested on charges of visiting a gaming house and gambling. Mrs. Doney was charged with Egeping a gambling device. The city was floocled with 5-cent pinball machines ‘| after Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, several weeks ago enjoined police from molesting pinball machines unless there was evidence the machines were being used as gambling devices. if

FUND CHIEF EXPECTED

Keith Morgan, national chairman of the Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birthday Ball,

month to confer wibh local officials in the Infantile Paralysis fund cam-

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(1) the number expecting a British victory dropped to 32 per cent and (2) the number favoring American entrance rose to 19 per cent. This month the number expect= ing a British victory had risen to 63 per cent once more, with 7 per cent expecting Germany to win and 30 per cent undecided or without an opinion: Following is the sectional vote on the questions of war and greater aid to Great Britain:

If you were asked to vote on the question of the United States entering the war against Germany and Italy, how would you vote— to go into the war or to stay out of the war? : GoIn Stay Out New England tates Middle Atlantic States East Central States West Central

Southern States. 17 83 Western States... 14 86

Which of these two things do you think is the more important for the United States to try to do —to keep out of war ourselves, or to help England win even at the risk of getting into the war?

Help—At

Risk Stay Out

90 91

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Southern States. 65

Western States..

2 CITY YOUTHS GET AIR SCHOLARSHIPS

Two Indianapolis youths are among 169 in the Fifth Corps Area who have been awarded U. S. Army Flying Cadet Scholarships, it was announced here today. They are Dennis D. Fox, 629 Holly Ave, and Victor E. Walton, 4033 Bowman Ave. They will begin training Jan. 2 at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, Sikeston, Mo.

TEST YOUR "KNOWLEDGE

1—“A” and “B” together found a $10 bill and divided it, “A” getting $1 more than “B"” because he saw it first. What was the share of each? 2—What is the name of the short, full skirt worn by men in Greece? 3—Are U. S. gunboats named for cities, famous battles or rivers? 4—Which two executive depart-

ments of the Federal Governe

ment were established last? 5—In what year was the present small paper currency put into circulation?

6—Does a body of water freeze from the bottom up, or from the top

down? 7—The Constitution does or does not require the President to send messages to Congress? 8—Which State extends farther west, Virginia or West Virginia? Answers 1—“A,” $5.50; “B,"” $4.50. 2—Fustanelle. 3-—Cities. 4—Commerce and Labor. 5-129. |

6—Top down. 7--It does.

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