The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-23
Bradley Tells of Part
 Taken by 35thD Diffusion In American OnensiUe
Were Located Southeast of Verdun at Time of Armistice Ready to Start New Offensive and
 Haven't Moved Peg Since"

Lieut., Leon c. Bradley, who left the city editors desk at The Age-Herald to enter the service soon after the out break of war, in a personal letter to E. w. Barrett, editor of The Age-Herald, gives some interesting facts regarding the part taken by the Thirty-fifth divi- sion in the big fighting.
 It is his first letter written since the relaxation of the censorship. He writes;
 Company B, 1S7th Infantry, A. E. F.
 November 2s. 1918.
 Dear MT. Barrett-Did you ever see a delegate at political convention who clamored loudly for recognition for an hour and then when he got the floor had nothing to say? Well, that's the way I feel tonight since the censorship has been lifted. For year or more l have amused myself at spare moments think ing of the many interesting things I had seen and done which I would like to tell my friends back home, but the cen sorship prevented. Now that we can write almost anything we desire, l am inclined to believe that didn't have as much to say as I thought I did. I don't intend this as any personal liberty or anti-prohibition argument, but it seems to have been largely a case of wanting to tell about lots of things simply be- cause you knew you couldn't.
 T cannot tell you how disappointed ] was at not getting to see you while you were in France. Of course there was not much chance of your finding me as you had the address of the organization ! left in July, And besides you came an otIr 111tc tober and early November were rather strenuous times for us, and even if you had visited the front my division was on there would have been no chance for us to meet unless you had come along when we were out for rest and replace ments.
 Even then I doubt if you would have gained much material or information from me as I would have taken all your time answering my questions l am rather behind on Alabama news, not hav- ing seen a paper from the state in more than four months. Naturally being in quisitive I would have thought of many things to ask you.
 CHOSE FORTUNATE TIME
 T know you had wonderful trip. It was an opportunity such as few have enjoyed. And I consider that you were most fortunate in coming just when you did. To have come a few months sooner you would not have seen the real Ameri can army nor could you have foreseen the mighty effort our men were to put forth It would have been hard to visual ize the real bigness of the scale on which the United States was preparing to win the war over here. You, of course, saw the real strategic importance of the part our army played during the--last 60 days of the war and you know just why the American front was the one which broke Germany's resistance, de- spite the more spectacular showing made in Flanders, Belgium and northern France. Of course at the time we knew nothing about the plans of campaign, but from things that have been given out since the armistice, it seems that if the war had lasted a couple of months longer, Marshal Foch would have been acclaimed even as a greater strategist than he is now. sa a
 Since the armistice was signed we have not moved a peg Needless to say vva would mt ohiect to a mora 0r 1asa