For many of us the worries of the past seem like such a long time ago. Just this week, a reader called to ask, “I have these pamphlets, would you like them?”

A history buff, we gulped, “Absolutely.”

So, these pictures of the pamphlet covers reproduced below, will serve as a reminder of the threats we had then!

Think we’ll hold onto these … just in case what happened before happens again! In case, George Santayana had it right: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”