BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 


VOL. XXXII APRIL, 1943 No. 2 




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BROOKLYN BOTANIC (GARDEN 
1942 
REPORT /@e SCE. DIRE CLO R™ 
To THE BoTANIC GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
I have the honor to present herewith my Thirty-second Annual 
Report. 
Tue Impact oF War 
Almost every activity of the Botanic Garden in the year 1942 
has been determined or modified by an event which took place 
nearly 5000 imiles from Brooklyn, about four weeks before the 
close of 1941. The attack of December 7, on Pearl Harbor, as 
everyone knows, brought the United States into the universal war 
as a formal and active co-belligerent of Great Britain and her 
allies. 
No aspect of the war is more thoroughly organized nor more 
fanatically fought by the enemy than that against religion, morals, 
and education. Every day, throughout a nation of eighty million 
people in Europe, children, adolescents, and adults, for ten years 
or more, have been and are now being, not educated, but indoc- 
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1 The illustration on the front cover page shows the “V,” for victory, a 
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the Morse Code sign for “V” (. . .——) done in red, white, and blue ane 
These designs were on the south end of the E oa eae throughout the 1942 
season. The small trees are flowering cherries—pa the two double rows 
(76 trees in all) planted on each side of the Sana in the fall of 1941. 
A portion of the pool in the Rose Arc is in the foreground. 
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