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- GLC#
- GLC09120.460
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 July 1944
- Author/Creator
- Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
- Title
- to Estellle Spero
- Place Written
- Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- Pagination
- 5 p. : + 1 Time magazine clipping Height: 21.2 cm, Width: 28 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Diamond informs Estelle that he has enclosed a page of the Pacific Pony edition of "Time". He writes that it is "really revolutionary. No advertisements, no fancy frills, every ounce of paper utilized." He mentions that the day before he had drunk his first pepsi-cola in over a year. He mentions that that evening he had watched "In Our Time", a film about the "death of the old world the rise of the new in Poland." He describes it as a "nice V for Victory affair which makes you want to believe you know what the hell you're fighting for but down inside you know that's belly-wash -"
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