The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
CHAPTER XXXIII

nN he Colonels desk, the tele- " phone that was connected only with his secretary was ringing. It was Winifred who answered 1t. She g1rgled, "Oh, yes. Send him right up.S
 She turned on the Colonel in a sunburst of sweetness. Its a re- porter from Events. He wants your opinion on the psychology of the Japs."
 The young man came in, nodded tolerantly to Winifred, and said to the Colonel, "The boss thinks your ideas about Japan ought to be valuable He says you handled a lot of publicity for the Japanese Government 9. few years ago"
 The Colonel sputtered, Non sense = nonsensel Just few rou- tine matters some commercial promotion that happened to come into our offlce-carelessness on the part of an underling-flred him the moment I heard he'd accepted the vile stuffl'
 Winifred Homeward, delicately gesturing with cigaret, her bright voice soaring, caught the reporters attention:
 'sBut you're perfectly right to come to him. Even if he is my father, I must say there's no one who has more information about Japan and how to crush it than the Colonel, whether as a soldier or an administrator. Here's the way he and I feel about it. Whats the shortest way from New York or Detroit or Pittsburgh or Wash ington or St. Paul, or for that matter, from Toronto, to Tokyo or Kobe, or Yokohama or, what really counts, to Korea where, we have inside information, the na- tives are ready to rise against their Japanese overlords-"
 Colonel Marduc presently wan dered out of the room, quite un- noticed, and did not return until after this spirited interview with him was over
 W7INIFRED said to Peony, These NV men - even the talented ones like my father and your husband and mine-they do mean so well, but they have no sense of orderli- ness and human values, like us.
 We women have always con- trolled school in Amer ica, and conversation and manners, but now that so many of the men are away at war, heres our chance to have a much higher sphere of influence. When the time comes, I'm going to run for the city coun- cil in New York, and I don't see why I shouldn't be governor. I'm going to start an organization of my own, something like the DDD, but much more hooked up with practical politics.
 "You could save my life, Peony. I want you to start business school, right away, and learn typing and shorthand, and be ready to boss the corps of secretaries I'll have to have I'll pay your tuition, and pay you $20 a week while you're learning. How about it?"
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 1-G1ly 4ldo bCC4A GO4CA VlOAA shopping, movies, reproving Car rie, playing bridge with gabby sister-in-law of Chris Stern, eat ing and a prodigious quantity of sleeping she had put in "A hours a day, but she had not met many of the powerful people whom the Doctor was always quoting. She had even been driven to taking courses in economies and history at Columbia, sometimes showing flp as often as every other class. < Now, business college was the nveliest party she had known in months. She was 29, but she found herself of the same age with all the girls of 9 and the undrafted boys of 18 in the school; and when George Riot slipped into town and on the telephone muttered that she must meet him, she refused, because she was going to 8 party to be given by the clever Miss