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 as much the no worid first problem attention is day of as has the going the received one ‘to of how spend the post-wer period, the day of surrender. There's alot of civilian speculation this question, but the has been too busy to go It's going British, Australians, Russians, French, Greeks, Czechoslavaks and Cubens will be under treatment for shock and contusions. The MP's will have mysteriously disappeared from the streets and will be discovered three days later huddling 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, 000 , O00 Germans had assembied there in Army into been on so far it. to start Slowly. At first the men 're going to climb up out 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'll start for Paris, London and Minsk, for Tripoli and Rerlin,for Kansas” City and Calcutta, for Yiokubene and Seattle, for Archangel, Belfast, Cologne, "Peking and the vats there will lod. be go in the evening no more whisky seriously into By 6:30 about who won gun and 2500 the have native and 10,000,000 cut A. exactly Hit- equal thousand P=38 swear 7 at pilots o'clock will never girls,will decide they can hold out for another months, and will say, do anything rash" in couple of "Let's not French, Arabic, Hindustani. Chinese and 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. there and the Army its wine per- first manner 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 on araft made of oil barrels, Sailing strongly toward Hoboken. Eleven hundred end fifteen soldiers on the verge of marriage to set. By 6 0 ‘eloek into Three been emptied in 20 minutes by the nearest armored division. Every woman on all the seven continents between the age of 10 and 90, not under an armed guard, will be kissed by an American before sunwill will ler solemnly The beer will run out in the first hour anda half and there will be frantic calls to Milwaukee and Mu- but orderly parts, Brooklyn. nich, an argument the war will have beAmericans, Chinese, ~-In Stars id Se and Stripes, (Africa). By Irwin Shaw