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Show iss Construct Barricade ) Protect Border Town, pays Returned Missionary t Jesse Monson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Monson, who has been laboring lab-oring as secretary of the Swiss-German L. D. S. mission for the past 31 months, arrived home late Tuesday Tues-day night. He was one of the last group of missionaries to leave Europe. Other members of the group were irresicieni inumas th. McKay and wife, and daughter Louise ; Louis Smith, son of Joseph Fielding Smith; and Brigham Young Card of Cardston, Canada. They sailed from Genoa, Italy, on February Feb-ruary 24, and landed in New York after a pleasant ten-day voyage. After sight-seeing several days in New York and Washington, D. C, Elder Monson continued on his journey home. He reports that Pleasant Grove looked "mighty good" to him. The town has improved im-proved in appearance, he said. Elder Monson has spent most of his time in Basel, Switzerland, first as secretary of the Swiss-German mission, and then, as war conditions changed, it became the Swiss-Austrian mission, and finally the headquarters head-quarters for most of the European mission, Basel, which is on the border bor-der of Germany, is henvily barricaded. barri-caded. Barbed-wire entanglements are numerous. Elder Monson reports re-ports that he saw many anti-aircraft encounters. The people of Switzerland do not want war any more than the Germans wapted it. but. they are preparing in case it should come, Elder Monson said. |