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The time that six of our code books were missing and that a seventh neatly wrapped firmly tied and accompanied by a courteous note had been returned to one or another of our embassies. by the japanese. either because they had finished with it or because they already had one. i had been instructed to report to colonel house at the hotel when i got to paris, but i never saw him. i saw instead ran outraged gentleman who plainly regarded me as an unsuccessfully comic pup net a crude and inexcusable practical joke. he said bitterly that code clerks had been showing up for days. the colonel house di...

God was exclusively a citizen of the united states. but as i say, mr. shand merely asked me about my grandparents, and i was off. i realize now that as a measure of patriotism, the long existence of my ancestors on american soil maximum makes me more loyal than virginia or even george washington, but i hadn't given it any thought at the time. before i sailed on the ssorazaba, a passenger ship converted to army transport and looking sheepish about it, i was allowed to spend four days in columbus, ohio, and my mother has preserved for reasons known only to mothers a snap shot taken of me on the ...

Thurber serveed in world war i and was a code clerk in paris during the peace talks. s he was supposed to go to switzerland. you'll discover why in this abridged reading from the beast in me and other animals from 1948. he department go to switzerland. in a story about 1918 tham as ever with his extraordinary humorist speaks to us as if it had been written yesterday. exhibit x by james thurber. i had been a code clerk in the state department in washington for four months during the first world war before my loyalty was investigated. if you could call my small pleasant interview with mr. shand ...