The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
IS Booker 7. WushinQton
ner we made out Of q sheet aboard
ship: NATIONAL MARITIME

ner we made out Of q sheet aboard
ship: NATIONAL MARITIME
UNION OF AMERICA, CIO.
Dancing had begun and the Cap.
tain and ! sit down TO watch. The
Army Special Services officer rushes
up to US. enraged and frightened.
The dance must be stopped at
once: everybody must 20 home.
Why" we ask. TOO many people"
he screams. I'VE might have q riot"
But why7" we ask again. Every.
body Is orderly. Everybody II hav.
ing q hne time. II you tried to stop
them now. you really would have
a riot" We tell him we believe the
dance will help to cement good
relations with the French. II know
these French" he says. They
aren't real French. They're mon-
grels and they hate US. We don't
want to have anything to do with
them. II I'd known what kind Of
a dance you were planning. I never
would have let you have the hall
l though you just wanted to ask
a few of your special friends"
So he has the doors shut, with ut
least a thousand people outside
stin trying to get In. But the dance
goes on. with easily 1000 inside.
Then the MP's appear and the SPs.
dozens Of them. One MP major with
a pistol lurches UP and down, look
ing as il he wants to use IL. They
found him in his hangout at the
Officery' Bar. already pretty far
gone. I ask him what trouble he II
looking for, and he says. TOO many
people" so I explain to him that
democracy means people and that
there can't be too many. He looks
about ready to pull that pistol, %
I move on. Somebody says there II
a company Of troops drawn up OUT
side. ready to break up the affair.
This turns out to be only rumor,
or threat from the drunken major.
The closest thing to trouble il when
a couple of American lieutenants
ask two French women. In the
presence Of their husbands. to sleep
with them that night This gets
handled quietly. by the French and
US, while The MP's idly swing tA-'-
clubs along the walls
GOOD FELLOWSHIP
PRAISED By SOLDIERS
The Italian coast IL close 70 star
board, blue misty clihs studded
with golden houses Lieutenant Joo
hands me letter, signed By al tho
officers in the crack combat cutAt
(white) we have had aboard 1og
the past week and are about to d.
liver to the front. I'VE are umant-
NOUS" ii reads, sin the realixattOu
Of our good fortune to have ben
placed aboard the Booker 7. wish,
ington. Many miles we have sai1ed
the seas In other ships. but neveI
before has such good feIlowshiI
been shown. =" Heading In
sisners in the Southern colonel d
.. command. And another letter, Iron
, the CTS: $50, men a the Bcoks
r. Washington. ~ hong - 4her
are soldiers to talk and pogg Q
. their experiences. the BxW ~
live. Please accept thess thank,
. pitifully small The soldiers vii
not forget"
The spokesman Of The 500 MAJ
prisoners we are bringing back b
America L. talking: Our leader
told US that democracy In Americ
was q fraud. They told NJ 20
were hypocritical when you sai
all men were free and equal. The
told US Negroes were no better tina
slaves in your country. But whs
we have seen on this ship. tn
happiness. the comradsship anon
all Of you. your fairness to u whe,
we had been told that you woula
beat and abuse ua all that In
made US think. At night after tn
lights 60 out down In the hold. ~
talk about II, all Of us."