CHAPTER 17HAD IT NOT BEEN for a slow rise in tension, life might have been pleasant in the bunker.
Television reception was excellent, via satellite, and news programs commanded the greatest interest after Flugel exploded. On the afternoon of little D-Day, Dr. Carey herself appeared on television to exhort her constituents to remain calm and stay in their living rooms, as she was doing. Her exhortations brought smiles to the viewers because they recognized the battle lamp above her living-room sofa.
Ten days after the arrival of the U.S. Government in Exile, Thule radar was jammed from Labrador and all television transmissions ceased. Drexel had delivered the ultimatum.
More oppressive than the loss of television, to Hansen, were the uncoded radio signals they picked up on the command f
