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E-mail inquiries for the State Historical Society of Iowa should be directed to history.research@iowa.gov or library.st@uiowa.ed Master image scanned with Ricoh Aficio MP C3000 as a JPEG at 600 ppi. Evening Tribune Des Moines, Iowa APR 23W | Chamber Talk I By WAAC "l£ people of Des Moines had seen their friends reduced to slavery as I have seen my friends in France turned into slaves of the Nazis, they would not consider any sacrifice too great to make for the winning* of this war." This wa« the challenge by Third Officer Elizabeth F. i Adams in an address before the Chamber of Commerce Friday noon at Hotel Fort Des Moines, Officer Adam?., now a member of the WAAC public relations department at Fort Des Moines, said: "I have seen what it is like to be a slave under the swastika flag of Germany. I have seen con- ] |quered people deprived of every- 1 thing by the Nazi hordes. I haver [seen Frenchmen with nothing leftr jto them but their love of liberty." i Wears Croix de Guerre. Officer Adams who wears the Croix de Guerre as a member of Anne Morgan's ambulance unit in France told how she had watched : the frugal French people tend their

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Evening Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa)