Evening star., 1939-11-10
(Second OF q Series.)
BY WILLIAM L. WHITE.

BY WILLIAM L. WHITE.
ABOARD S. S. REX (By AirmaiD .
This afternoon I picked up some
thing on relations between the
E.ome-Berlin axis. The elderly
German lady in the deck chair next
mine. first admired my tweeds.
"Zat does not exeest in Shermany
today" she said.
I said I understood this was true.
"Vill you pc in Shermany long
time?"
LAS long as the war lasts.
But If you pc in Shermany long
time, you should puy everything
before you come in-wools, clothes
everything. In Shermany you can
not puy."
I said I had heard this. And that
already had bought.
In Shermany we hat god things"
she said suddenly defensive. I've
hat new inventions-clothin made
of wood"
said I had heard this, too.
'zis goat have on now-you feel
It,"
So felt the sleeve of her coat.
Is soft. no?"
said it was very soft, indeed.
"1s made of wood Is warm, too.
Is better than WOOL"
said 1t undoubtedly was.
rs clipper, too," said the German
lady. In Shermany now, we cannot
make wool or butter-ve make var"
I smiled. I did not feel I should
say I also had heard that in Ger
many they made war.
you sink Amerika come in de
var?" asked the German lady.
America Don't Like War.
said I thought not. That in
America we did not like war.
The German lady smiled agree
ably. I'm Milwaukee I met German
Doktor, was also Chew. He say
If England and France are going to
be defeated, that then Amerika
come in. He say that because he
wish it-because he is a Chew, MOP"
I said that many Americans who
were not Jews also said it. But that
most Americans wanted to stay out
The German lady smiled compla-
Gently. "Zat is goot," she said. "zis
time Amerika mind her own beesnes
-schtay out of Europe!"
did not say anything. The Ger
man lady was now watching the
Italian sailor who was scraping
table on the deck veranda before
painting it. Little wood shavings
from his putty knife scurried over
the deck in the wind. The German
lady frowned on them.
You see how dey are dirty? Eat
could not happen on Sherman boat.
Die Europa, de Bremen-always
clean. Every day. scrub deck"
Maybe the Italians don't like
things so clean.
"Zey are dirty!" she said scorn-
fully. But maybe I should not say
that"
why not?" I asked.
Because" said the German lady,
beginning to laugh, Italy is re good
friend of Shermany, re great and
good friend!" and then she laughed
very hard, as though to be allied
with a troup Of monkeys or the
four Marx Brothers, and slapped her
thigh under the coat made Of wood
which was better than wool, and
laughed some more.
Believe Ship Will Be Stopped.
The sea Is warm and wool clothes
scratchy because we are approaching
the Azores. But something else is
ahead. We will steam by the Azores,
purple masses rising out of the At
lantic. But Monday we will enter
the the Straights of Gibraltar and
there, 50 goes the whispered rumor
behind cupped hand on this fright
ened ship, we will be stopped.
Up the ladder will come French
and British officers from a British
destroyer anchored in Gibraltar har-
NOR. In our little company are
many Germans-perhaps q third of
US, but mostly women, returning
from visits with relatives. But, 50
runs the rumor, among them are
kANC AAAoJ NC ulCu
military age. Will these be taken
of by the French and British and
interned in concentration camp
for the duration of the war? They
have that right, under international
law. The Italian officials have
taken up all our passports which
must be shown to the British and
French at Gibraltar. Will the five
Germans hide? Will they resist?
Will the British and French not
bother with them? No one knows.
But every one waits, as the little red,
white and green flags in the ships
map come nearer and nearer to
Gibraltar-to the big rock-to the
big British battleship.
Youth PAGES Deck.
The determinedly energetic young
German-very blond-thick neck
piercing close-together blue eyes