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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
New French Policy

Decision of the United States not to recog-
nize DeGaulle's French Committee for Ma
tional Liberation the government OF
France but rather to see that the committee
takes the lead in establishing law and order
until the French choose their own rulers is
a sound, middle policy.
Revealed last night by Secretary of State
Hull in his address, it is the first official re-
port the formula for dealing with France
The program, with commitments held to the
! minimum, is based on common sense and
shows that Secretary Hull had more than
his usual hand in helping prepare it.
1T is of utmost Importance he asserted
that civil authority in France should be
exercised by Frenchmen, should be swiftly
established and should operate in accordance
with advanced planning as fully as military
operations permit.
Now is the time to start deciding how the
French question will be handled. Soon, &C.
cording to all indications of the nearness of
the INVASION the country will become the
major European battlefield 1t is high time
we let the French know our intentions toward
them.
The width of DeGaulle's popularity among
his countrymen is questionable: He has been
far-sighted and determined to hold himself
as the principal symbol of the spirit of France
and French resistance. Yet, his disagreements
with other French leaders have been numer-
Gus. 1t has always been difficult for him to
compromise. However, he can be of great
aid to the Allies when they strike the main
land of Europe. The tasks for him then will
be great, but if he is able to restore law and
order, let him take the lead After that, he
will be on his own and only France shall
have the opportunity to decide his future
role.
We are on the road to a much better po-
litical policy than existed when we struck
Italy. 1t reduces emphasis outside military
government and certainly shows we have no
interest in taking ruling part in the forma-
ton of a government for the new France.
The plan points toward a stable Europe
which, as Secretary Hull explained, is the
immediate objective of the allies after Ger
many is beaten.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Let It Bloom Again

A merchandising authority writing in Ma
tons Business says: Retail distribution in
the United States after the war will be gov
erned by q single, major objective: How to
bring the greatest amount of goods at the
lowest cost to the largest number of con-
surners
1T will be an of opportunity for manu-.
facturer, distributor and consumer Never
before will so many business forces have
combined to achieve practical ideal, the EN-.
ployment of private enterprise in the service
of the consuming public
Whether the objective of the retail distri
button Industry will be realized depends more
upon government policies than upon retailers
The ability Of American merchants is well
known But the ability at present is otter
handicapped under a centralized government
After the war it is devoutly to be hoped that
the process of liquidating government oprres
sion will begin promptly. Not until then can
opportunity, so long familiar to the United
States, be counted upon to return in full
bloom.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Gobbledygo0k

The country is indebted to Maury Maverick
for gobbledygook 1t is not to be confused
with globaloney or lamzey divey. 1t is a new
word coined to describe and to end several
old words which have gotten in the hair OF
Mr. Maverick chairman of the Smaller War
Plants Corp.
These words which Mr.. Maverick has ban
ished from the SWPC vocabulary form the
Basic English of bureaucracy They are SNUG,
pompous and trite Bird-brained government
clerks have worn them to death trying to
impress the boss, or playing at being big
shots. They have done much to make bu-
reaucracy unpopular.
Mr. Maverick, having read and heard them
day after day, finally came to a slow boil,
r'ared back, and passed edict:
stay off the gobbledygook language" he
ordered. Lets stop pointing up programs,
finalizing' contracts that stem from district
regional Or Washington levels No more pat
terms, effectuating, dynamics. Anyone using
the words 'activation' or 'implementation' will
be shot!'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Ships-By Initials

If you are confused by invasion dispatches
which list various types of landing craft, just
file or memorize this partial list of official
initials by which our landing ships are known:
LSD-Landing Ship, Dock.
LST-Landing Ship, Tank.
LCIG)-Landing Craft. Infantry Garge).
LCVP-Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel.
IT'D.
LCTO-Landing Craft, Tank.
LCT(5-Landing Craft, Tank mark W.
LCT(6-Landng Craft, Tank mark VIZ.
LVT-Landing Vehicle, Tracked Unarmor-
ed.
LCs(s)-Landing Craft, Support Small.
LSM-Landing Ship, Medium.
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QUOTATIONS

. Everybody simply loathes bombing as a
form of warfare But if we are to get rid
of war, we must fight with every available
weapon and with relentless efficiency until the
powers of darkness are overcome.-Dr. B,
S. Batty bishop of Fulham, England
It is not unreasonable to think of the war
being over at the end of another Is months,
but whether it is over in six months or six
years it is wise to have a program under
way for return to peace.-Charles E. Wilson,
president General Motors.
It is as irrelevant for an industrial nation
today to debate whether to plan or not to
plan as it would have been in 1900 to debate
whether or not to use power-driven machin-
ery.-Dr. Robert S. Lynd OF Columbia uni.
versity-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Too Many Estimates

One of the worst examples of unnecessary
estimates on the wars needs coming out of
Washington recently is the statement by
Chairman May, of the House Military COM
mittee, that the first month of the European
invasion will cost American forces a maxi
mum of 100000 casualties. To u.s. his re-
mark is packed with rank defeatism.
This, he said, is the figure the armed
forces and selective service are reckoning
on tentatively for requirements Yet, without
giving any totals, Lieut. General Omar NJ
Bradley, head man of our ground forces in
the United Kingdom, recently told his Off
GERS some of you won't come back but it
will be very few"
Perhaps Representative May is seeking to
harden the American people for a great blow.
We know the cost of smashing the strongest
wall in Hitler's fortress will be high. 1t was
great when we struck Guadalcanal but fol-
lowing attacks in the Pacific, with one or two
exceptions, have resulted in comparatively
light casualties. Experience has been Won
derful teacher and the tactics of blasting an
atoll apart, with air and naval power, before
putting our fighters ashore, has held the num-
Der of killed and wounded to low figure.
We know what is, what great sacr-
fees it demands. And we are owing tired
Of being built up and protecled' from the
unfavorable news.
We're also growing weary of daily esti-
mates and guesses from Washington on this
great conflict. No one knows how long it will
last, what reverses we have still yet to suf-
fer. We want facts. If they cannot be given,
then silence will be appreciated.
Too many of our leaders are prone to put
on the cloak of oracles and give forth with
opinions, not taking especial care to brand
Them as such and often leaving the impress
zion that their remarks are cold facts Too
frequently they fail to preface what they say
with this is what I think or I believe
AS an example, take the policies of selec
tive service few weeks ago there was
fathers. both young and comparatively old
Now. Director Hershey announces no mer
over Is will be called until the younger ones
.re put into service. Meantime, thousands
ahove that age limit facing early or imme
date induction, in view of the recent state
ments. have not only undergone apparently
unnecessary worry and anxiety but have al
,.red their business and other affairs in prepa
ration for their departure this spring or earl.
summer. This has built up considerable con
fusion at home.
This is but one case. There are man,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Misplaced Charity

The American people have been sorely griev-
ed by the treatment OF American troops and
citizens in japanese internment camps. The
condition of survivors of the Philippines cam
pag, under japanese barbarism is pitiful
that no can read of their plight without shud-
dering.
Starvation and slave work have killed thou
sands, while lack of medical care for the sick
have sent other thousands to their graves. Nor
does this situation prevail in the Philippines
alone. Wherever American have come under
the Japanese domination they have been sub
iected to tortures that revolt the SOUL
In contrast to this it is interesting and dis
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qu1eting to learn that hospital care Tor pe1sv..s
of Japanese ancestry interned in this country
for the duration averages $342 a patient day.
G. M. Hammer, former administrator of Hilo
Memorial hospital in Hawaii, writing in the
April issue Of Hospitals, the journal of the
American Hospital Association, points out that
this cost is on a par with and sometimes
higher than that provided for merchant sea-
men by the United States Public health Ser
vice and by Veterans Administration contracts
with voluntary hospitals for patient care.
Isn't this a rather perverted Interpretation
of the Biblical saying that lit is more blessed
to give than to receive"?
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The Literary Guidepost

penter's horses to support an OBJ
session of Lawrence's, which was
that it was his mission to argue
the public out of making sex a
dirty thing. The public was prob
ably less snickerful than Lawrence
thought, and Lawrence's fictional
tract was probably less effective.
Now one u our energetic pub
fishers has dug out the first draft
of the book, and is publishing it
in America as The First Lady
Chatterley." Frieda Lawrence has
written an introduction. The pub
fishers declare vehemently that
this is a better novel than the
third version, which is the one
readers already know. They are
right, too, but 1.-THE First Lady
Chatterley' is still not the equal
of Lawrence's best Work-to wit.
"Sons and Lovers. 1t is too talky,
and although the characters are
really characters, they still take
themselves with that uncompro-
missing, humorless seriousness that
afflicted Lawrence, particularly in
the last half of his working life.
And the class struggle, which
is large share of the book, is
selfconsciously managed. 1t is in
telligently managed, for all that,
and the authors sincerity is un-
questionable.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
By JOHN SELBY
THE FIRST LADY CHATTER
LEY" by d. H. Lawrence Dial;

S2.75.
In the winter of 1929-30 1 was
living in villa just outside the
village of Venice, in the Alpes-
Maritimes between Nice and
Grasse. On the other side of the
village very famous man lay
dying. His death was affecting, and
ore of the most affecting things
was that he was very poor; part
of his support came from the
sale of badly printed and worse
bound novel called Lady Chat
terley's Lover" 1t was banned, l
think, in all English-speaking coun-
tries, published first at Florence,
at once pirated all over the world.
For sixty francs it was possible to
buy an authorized cheap edition
published with an introduction by
Lawrence at Paris, and that l
bought.
For quite a while it seemed to
me a useful book, but its useful
ness thinned a bit with the years,
or perhaps this came about when
the shock of the four-letter words
was forgotten. 1t now seems to
me that the famous gamekeeper,
Lady Chatterley, and Lady Chat
terley's husband were merely car
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
With Ernie Pyle

self in many ways.
Whenever there is battle he is
in his own tank directing his COM
pany. I just had the pleasure of
seeing him get the Silver Star for
gallantry in action. He has been
wounded twice since I saw him
in Tunisia.
Whenever his company pulls
back from battle, Jed Daley
throws the small details of Army
discipline out the back door and
the men resllv get a rest. AS they
say, He fights hard and he rests
hard" That's the way the boys
get the most out of it. and they
appreciate it.
Captain Daley is tall and his
black hair stands up and reaches
back and you'd have to call him
good-looking. He nearly always
goes bareheaded even in h e
danger zone. It is not an affecta-
ton; he simply likes to go bare
headed. He usually wears an Air,
Corps fleece-lined leather jacket
he once haggleo out of some flier
friend.
At the left shoulder of the Jacket
are two holes - one in front of the
shoulder, one in back. The first
hole is where a piece of shell
fragment went in. The back hole
is where it came out after going
through his arm They took a piece
out of his leg to patch up his
wounded shoulder.
The other officers laugh and saw
jed wouldn't sew those holes up
for $4,000 Ana another one saws
Not only that, but you can see
where he mas taken his knife and
made them bigger" You don't talk
like that in front of a man when
you mean it. Jed just grins and
says, Sure
Before that he was wounded in
the face from an air burst. When
he got out Of the hospital from his
second wound he had a weeks
leave at Sorrento, the beautiful re-
sort city belowsNaples. He stayed
one night and then returned to his
company. e,ybody at the rest
camp thought lie was crazy.
1T isn't that I am anxious to
fight" Jed siad, "but when YOU
are commanding combat outfit
your place is with your outfit. You
feel like heel if you are able to
be there and aren't. I feel lots
better since get back"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
BY ERNIE PYLE
WITH FIFTH ARMY BEAt

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACH
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY - )by
wireless) In our old gang of
Tunisian tankmen of a year and
more ago there was Capt. Jed
Daley, who comes from Sharon,
Mass, near Boston.
Jed was through that battle at
Sldi bou lid, and it was he who
was SO furious about losing his
camera and mis- bedroll and all his
films to the Germans.
l wrote about him at the time,
saying he bet the Germans would
develop those films eagerly, think
ing they'd reveal some military
secrets, but all they'd find would
be a picutre OF man in a silly
pose with Tunisian flowers stuck
behind his ea4's
Jed says that after that column
he got dozens of letters kidding
him about putting flowers behind
his ears, out he didn't care.
He has avenged the loss of his
camera, too Since then he has
personally captured from the Ger
mans an even better one to replace
it, and has added a Luger and a
five pair ct binoculars for good
measure.
Jed Daley is an unusual Esrson.
] think I like him about as much
as anybody I know. He is pure
Bostonian. He talks with a Harvard
broad a. He is a far cry from
the farm boy of the Kentucky hills,
yet he commands a company of
such boys and they love him.
Following the battle at Kas-
serine, Jed Daley was switched
from a desk jot to the command
OF company Oh tanks. The job Of
company commander, whether it's
infantry or tanks or what, is the
greatest job in the Army - the
greatest and the toughest.
The boys themselves have told
me what they think of Jed Daley.
When he first arrived, they were
contemptuous of that cultured ac-
cent and had little faith in him.
They laugh now and tell how he
tries to speak in a flat accent
whenever he gives them talk
but without realizing it lapses back
into his broad A.
But he has lived that down, and
all their other jokes about him
They'd go anywhere with him now
or for him, He has proved him.
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Interpreting
The War
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press War Anaivs,

The warning of high Allied lead
ers that the German suDmar;,.
fleet remains potent has sigoi,;
canoe in light of the forthcon,ir,
invasion.
President Roosevelt and Prin,
Minister Churchill, in a month";
report yesterday on the ant-spb.
marine campaign, said that ",b.
strength of the U-boat force 70
mains considerable and calls f.,
powerful efforts by surface and Al.
forces"
Their statement followed BY M
ly few days the assertion Of Ser.
rotary Of the Navy Knox that Ger.
many is now concentrating ON
building submarines to the virtual
exclusion of all other vessels and
that the U-boats will undoubted
ly come out in mass soon."
The air and undersea arms ara
virtually the only means that Hi.
Ter has OF meeting the invasion
fleets before they put their bow,
on European shores to begin great
land battles.
The German surface navy-even
at the outset of moderate numeri.
cal strength has been whitfield
down nearer and nearer to the
vanishing point by naval engage.
ments which Hitler's commander,
unwisely allowed themselves to be
drawn into, and by such forays
as the recent bombing of the bat.
tleship Tirpitz and earlier air and
midget submarine attacks on hid.
ing German warships by the Royal
Air Force and British navy.
The Nazis therefore must rely
on the submarine (Which in the
past has served the Reich well
if not successfully to harasS the
Allied transports and their escorts
outward bound on invasion, And
they have given evidence of nus
banding the undersea fleet for the
advent of I'D day
The evidence, indeed, may be
contained in a passage of the lat'
est Roosevelt Churchill statement
noting that the U-boats are op,
Grating in widely dispersed areas
from the Barents Sea to the Ind,
ian Ocean," The hunting may not
be as good on those ship lanes
but the U-boats may live Longer
perhaps to come back to home wat
ers and help battle the invasion,
BY preserving the submarines a.
ready in commission and pushing
U-boat building, the Nazis will be
in better position to use them IN
the final effort against invasion
There is another reason for keep
ing the undersea raiders away from
the heavily patrolled shipping
lanes. In addition to the loss o.
ship, the loss Of the crew mus
be reckoned with. Like the mod
ern. highly complicated bomber
the U-boat is an intricate ant
temperamental bit of machinery
to be handled only by men loAi
and carefully trained.
The nucleus for new crews mus
come from the experienced mel
aboard boats now in service.
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Applause For Audience

Hollywood beauties deserve all the thanks
they've received for undergoing the rigorous
perils of front-line life to bring entertainment
to our troops overseas. But now aoou'
word for the soldiers themselves VINO nave
suffered the disillusionment OF seeing their
favorite pin-up girls unglamorous in Stacks
and CT long underwear, but who nevertheless
have remained to cheer?
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NO BANNER FLIES
OVER AMERICAN
GRAVES AT ANZI0
By KENNETH L. DIXON

(delayed)-(P)-No flag is allowed
to fly over the American cemetery
where the beachhead dead are bur-
led. There is a good reason.
In this flat land it would give
German artillery an aiming point"
said 1t. Herbert R. Southworth, 29-
year-old former steel mill purchas-
ing agent at Mansfield, Ohio, who
is in charge of the grave registra-
ton service.
wherever the cemetery is out
of shell range we fly flag over
it."
One of the men who felt badly
about there being no flag over the
graves was Maj. John P. Merrill
of Los Angeles, an ammunition Of
ficer. but he doesn't mind so much
any more.
He was out in the cemetery the
other day, standing there looking
at the rows of white crosses. Here
and there are white "Stars OF
David" over the grave of a known
Jewish boy.
Suddenly motion along the lit
tie tree-lined road attracted his at
tention. A passing soldier had turn
ed and given the cemetery a snap
ply salute. The major watched the
road. Several soldiers passed by
and nothing happened. Soon an
other CT came along. He, too, sal
uted the cemetery as he went by.
1t happened several times before
Merrill finally stopped one of the
soldiers and asked him if anyone
had suggested the salute The boy
said no, it was his own idea. He
didn't know anyone else was doing
it. Quietly the major asked him
why he saluted-"Just to hear what
he said.'
''There's a lot of good boys out
there" the soldier said simply.
Southworth and his grave regis.
tration crew, who have handled
burials for one American division
through the Sicilian and Italian
campaign, came ashore at Anzio
one day, started the cemetery next
day, and were burying the dead the
following day.
1t was supposed to have been
just small, temporary cemetery,
soon to be replaced by a larger
one when the troops moved on. But
it has become semi-permanent,
and no longer is small. Also, it
was intended for just one division,
but the crowded condition of the
teachhead has resulted in its be-
ing used generally for Americans.
The British have their own GENE
terry elsewhere.
Of all the men buried here, less
than one percent are unidentified,
and most of those eventually will
be through their fingerprints.
-l-..y Germans buried in a plot
adjacent to the Americans are not
yet identified, but every possible
effort has been made to preserve
their effects for identifcat after
theAWar.
The men try to make the ceme-
terry as beautiful as possible, white
washing the crosses when they get
faded or dirty and building small
pathways of crushed rock between
the rows of graves, but they can't
do a great deal because materials
are scarce and so are men for any
task not Immediately connected
with the constant battle. Later,
when the front moves forward,
competent cemetery Identification
program will be carried out.
But now even the essential work
often is done under shellfire. Men
have been killed while preparing
bodies for burial and during grave
rites. Shells fly overhead all day
long and the grave registration
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Fair Enough

(Ediotr's Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Peger,
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
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DailyPrayer
FOR WARS CHILDREN

Like our Master, who took "'
little ones into His arms and o-eSs
ed them; and who gave US us
'1nasmuch' as a motive we "oo.'
beseech. Thy help in becoming N--
listers to the children of these da!,.
Let not wars blight fall upon 'le5
tender souls. Give wisdom IN gu.
ance to all parents and teac'le- 4
Quicken society's consciousness
the needs of the bodies and h'-D .rr
OF these plastic lives. Early 'a va
their thoughts to Thee. And NON ,n
mercy, o Heavenly Father; ug s..
the afflicted children Of the wa
torn lands. Speed the con1i"s ~,
peace, that hands of heIpl",I.r5s.sl
may be extended to them all. Ii ~.
the wounds of war upon the" ~
dies and minds. Upon them N
must depend for the carrying n,
of a better world. God save ,re
children.-and enable us to LEX We.
faithful hearts to share my '''
Amen.-W. T. E,
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others, an pointing to the fact that fewer
estimates or guesses to aggravate us will be
much better for home morale.
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My hands were filled with many things
That l did precious hold,
AS any treasure of Kings
Silver or gems or gold.
The Master came and touched my hands,
(The scars were in His oWn)
And at His feet my treasures sweet
Fell shattered, one by one.
II must have empty hands," said He,
"Wherewith to work My works through
thee" HavergaI.
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office work is done in Sma1 w.
out. ii;
Occasionally enemy ar l@ ar.
force the men to dive for pro- =,
ton into the very graves t'7'
been digging.