The Day the War Ends There's been a lot of thought lavished onthe post-war period by thought-lavishers in the highest poSitions,but no problem has received as much attention as the one of how the world is going ‘to spend the first day of the post-wer British, Australians, Russians, French, Greeks, Czechoslavaks and Cubens will be under treatment for shock and contusions. The WP's will have mysteriously Gisappeared from the streets and will be discovered three days later huddlirg in air raid shelters, Fifteen Americans led by a T-5 will drive up to Berchdesgaden in an amphibious jeep, ropes in their hands, only to find that 10, 00, 0 OOO Germans had assembied there in period, the day of surrender. There's been alot of civilian speculation on this question, but the Army so far has been too It's going to start Slowly. At first the men to go into it. 're going climb out busy to up of the fox-holes , brushing the mud off a little and just looking around, ready to duck back fast, in case it's al a gag, Then it's going to sink in suddenly and the Army'l start for Paris, London and Minsk, for Tripoli and Perlin,for Kansas City and Calcutta, for Yokahama and Seattle, for Archangel, Belfast, Cologne, Peking and Brooklyn. The beer will run out in the first hour anda half and there will be frantic calls to Milwaukee and Munich, but the vats there will have been emptied in 20 minutes by the nearest armored division. Every woman on #1 the seven continents between the age of 10 and 90, mot under be kissed set. by By 6 o'clock will will ied. about gun an armed guard, an American in the evening be no more whisky go seriously into By who won and 2500 the war sun- there Americans, have ier into 10,000,000 and cut exactly A. Hite equal on araft made of oil buarrels, Sailing strongly toward Hoboken, Eleven hundred end fifteen soldiers on the verge of marriage to mative girls,will decide they can hold out for another couple of months, and will say, "Let's not do anything rash" in French, arabic, Chinese and Hindustani. Second lieutenants will suddenly become very polite to privates from their home towns whose fathers own good businesses there, By 11 o'clock the next morning all the aspirin will be gone. argument will manner Three thousand P-38 pilots will solemnly swear at 7 o'clock never to travel again by anything more rapid than the Erie Railroad and never to go up more than three stories in any building. At dusk a party of soldiers will be seen off the coast of Africa and the Army its wine per- 6:30 the first orderly parts, will before an be- Chinese, --In Stars ~13- and Stripes, (Africa). By Irwin Shaw