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     There has been some questioning as to the advisability of closing the message with the
depressing" ill wind" phrase, but this ending presumably is deliberate and premeditated.
 
     The only suggestion made regarding the proposed statement for Stalin is that the words
"the Indies, the thatched villages of the South Pacific" on page l, third paragraph, be omitted. It is
suggested that Mr. Davis might, wish to substitute the expression "the torrid and temperate
zones".
 
       No suggested revisions were made concerning the proposed statement for Mr. Churchill.        
 
 
 
                                        M.J.McDermott
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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