Will Lynch comments on the fact that Shanghai is very different now. Also has some words for American "pacifists". After the war he married a retired teacher from America he had met when she was touring with other teachers. Was this her?? Roselyn
February 26, 1942. Thursday. 81st Day.
Cloudy and chilly, but February is about finished so there'll likely be no more long cold periods.
No good news yet. Radio and local papers claim Axis Powers, including Japanese, continue winning.
Beat Brookhart 3-0 at rummy. J.B.S. won 1-0.
This old town sure has slowed down. Very few motor cars. Travel is by foot, bicycle or trams. Gasoline is "few". No foreign shipping. Japs have taken over about all Settlement Municipal jobs; also Customs job.
Hey Ho. Wot a mess!
February 27, 1942. Friday. 82nd Day.
Sunny and warmer.
News is not good. Seems Los Angeles had enemy airplane scare. Wonder what the Isolationists and Pacifists think now, especially a certain teacher tourist, who in 1938 told me I should return to U.S.A. and "get in touch" when I told her, when viewing devastated Shanghai, that "If you Pacifists had your way, we in the U.S.A. would be herded, as were the Chinese here".
Had tea with Pauline Meyers. She has a husband in U.S.A.
Beat Mr. Groves 4-1 at cribbage. Lost acey-deucy 2-0 to Mr. Lockhart. Tied rummy 1-1 with J.B.S.
No news re repatriation.
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