The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
 CUB REPORTER

dents are back from the fronts |. . Il With tales you never see in the | communiqueS The incident in | North Africa the other day, for in- | stance, where a famed correspon- | dent was finally dealt with-after he fooled New York editors .l This chaps beat for long time was Berlin . He played ball with the Nazis, of course |. Not to get news | sS others have done He played | ball with them because he was on | their team After we broke with | Germany, he landed juicy job here |. His book, which belatedly | slapped the NaZiS, sold well, too . But those who knew him never fell Tor his act . Recently he showed | up as correspondent in the war zones, where a former reporter (now an aide to an American general 1 who was always hep to him, gave him break Take the first truck back to Algiers, sucker. If you don't I'll prove everything I'll tell them!" The Nazi in American khaki refused He was then posted everywhere in North Africa Tor mo rations," which drove him put of the place-and he not only almost starved for food and water but for affection.
 Drew Middleton, William H 5toneman, John MacVane, Chas. JollingWood and some other Ameri- :an reporters and commentators ate medals for their reporting of she political embroglios in North Africa despite the heavy army and State Department pressure to stop them The political censorship was lifted early in January - but since then pressure has been ap- piled to get the boys to lay off the explosive situation created by our policy What is not widely known is that Columbia Broadcasting was pressured to shut up Collingwood and that Harry Butcher, an eX- tixer for Columbia Broadcasting, now a commander, and naval aide to Eisenhower, was the instrument.
 Returning war reporters tell of the melodrama on ship which brought back prisoners of war . The Geneva convention, it appears, ruled that officers of war prisoners would handle the discipline of their own men .. On this ship, some of the prisoners included few of Germany's former social democrats Now that they were prisoners the war was over for them-so they refused to salute their Nazi superb DTS .. The infuriated officers sought satisfaction from the Americans in charge We demand" one of them stormed, some pistols and permission to have these men shot,"
 The request, of course, was ig- nored.
 Admiral Esteva, the Resident-Gen- eral in Tunis, who supposedly col laborated with the Nazis since last November and is now reported to be their prisoner, wasn't bad guy, &C., cordlng to the American historians. . But he was a rare one In the Nrench Navy, they say, he was known as the virgin Admiral and he was proud of it, and went barefoot in church processions |. And they say he hated the Germans who con- fiscated his house in Rheims and turned it into brothel :. A casino, he said But his aide told re- porters it was a brothel Imagine
 and him virgin.
 The correspondents tell us they are amazed about the rumors over here regarding the WAACs in AL giers "allegedly being a headache to Eisenhower" we didn't see any thing to indicate that" said the scribes. "In fact, the ladies who arrived with Captain Marquis were all lodged in a convent in El-Biar, suburb of Algiers where they kept very chaste hours"
 You probably recall the booklet handed our men in North Africa about Arabian customs, which warned them of the urgent import ance of respecting mosques, customs, women, etc. |. Arabian dignitaries say the effect has been very good This is how the Sultan of Nor occo first laid eyes on the book let General Nogues decided to 'esist when he learned of the Ameri- can landings in the early hours of November 8 .. He planned to move his headquarters to Meknes, which is inland, and there await German help which had been promised. . He was not pro- o-Nazi-simply an op- portunist .. He thought we weren't there in sufficient force He asked the Sultan to move with him from Rabat-and from Meknes de- clare a holy war on the invaders Despite the legend of General Nogues' influence over the Sultan, His Majesty refused to move Or de- clare holy war.
 That was Sunday afternoon That evening about six, the Sultan was handed a copy of the booklet the army got up with the help of a Harvard professor of anthropology and some of his experts who were over there ahead of time . This booklet, the Sultan learned, was found on the body Of an American soldier killed in the landing at Port Lyautey in the attack on Kasbah there, which was repulsed by native troops The booklet was blood- stained .. The man who brought it to the Sultan was an Arab dignitary favorable to the Allied cause .. He translated the passages about re- spect for Arab customs, Arab Wo- men, etc. The Sultan, not an emotional individual, wept and said: 1T knew that the Americans were good people. I am glad I did what I did"
 Now that Tunisia is cleaned up, | developments can be expected in N