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Bradley beam., 1944-03-11
NOTES FROM A WAC'S DIARY
By PVT. ETHEL STORM

Thank you Pv Marion Wood the lovely SSs Friedman bit peubed being classified Med So drop line in of Thpy Now has been mentioned twice so that should make for the neglect, Eh?
 the Photo Unit and you best wishes sgnments will the have The calls day dropped Wonder what the boys will have that they can't that number
 
 Was really worried column and Monday.
 Is just umor military expected of the and Patients Mes suggestion from the Color Chart blend beautifully Just like orange blos- .oms and Lohengrn. Dasng hospital visited the WAC ward and found House and Ann Smith we'll the road recovery Conne lovely and much improved Pvt Adel Beech says her she fell the ub Does that mean that our tubs polishedP
 s/sg Marietta doing NCo Club from all reports. Introducing new member by hardly needs an introduction outstands WAC Pvt Virginia received her BA degree before enstns and really doing Another very and to know RDO Sete her friends whose their and willing slaves to maket the hall shine.
 Sgt USO dance Monday night
 By what WAC that Besame Mueho According Pvt Lopez, translated that means Kiss Me Much We'll have to take his word for it.
 Cpl woodie Kicker doing with skiing still recommend her lnstruc- when he for this ad Cp Nell convalescng looking em Oregon
 See you week. hope.
Bradley beam., 1944-03-11
FLIGHT STRIPS
By R. MAXIM

We'll fellows here I am again, much to your regret, with all the dirt from way back. Since then, lots has happened. Cpl. Wendell A. Todd, married Catherine I. Zulauf of Baltimore, Maryland. S/Sgt. Larry Newquist, this past Satur- day, also tried to find out if two people can live as cheaply as one. Take my word, fellows, two can live as cheaply as one, if one of you doesn't eat. Heard quite bit about the big house party that Bert Nader is throwing for the fel- lows in Engineering. It's nice to note that we all are like brothers under the skin. But what Pm won- dering is, if that is as far as it goes. Looks like Henry Mentecki is going to run hard race with Henry Morganthau, as to who is going to pay the most income tax this year. All I know is, that Men tecki is going at it pretty darn strong.
 Don't mention MacDill Field, Florida to Epstein. He's allergic to the South. .or could it be some other reason? Joe Morello is get ting homesick for "Tickey." Going to Washington this weekend to see if he can boost his sales talk up little. Happy hunting, Joe.
 Understand that Earl Sapp is listening to the tinkle of "those" bells. You guys never get enough, do you? Charley Bearse is looking pretty sad these days, ever since Poppy" left. Cheer up Charley, all is not lost. Saul Freedman has that date set. All men of this Flight, are invited to the ceremony, and free food afterward. Thanks for the invitation, Saul.
 Open Letter to John Buecker:
 Dear John: Your first fan letter arrived this morning. My wife can't understand why you aren't married yet. Ever since I put your picture in my photo album, my Ht- tie woman has been talking about your eyes. What the devil have you got, that I haven't? Why the. ... don't you get married and let me get some rest?
 Our Commanding Officer:
 John w. Parker, Captain, AC, is the well-known Commanding Off, ficer of our Flight. A jovial, toler- ant, and easy-going Officer, Cap tain Parker has the reputation of commanding the best flight of our entire outfit. Captain Parker is service pilot, who, thinking his services could be used by his coun- try, enlisted in 1942. Commissioned as Captain, he has made quite a name for himself in our wing. He is destined to go places.
 Next week: An open letter to Sgt. Truitt. Also the limelight goes on It. Randall. Until then, so long for now, I'll see you next week when our flight lines cross.
Bradley beam., 1944-03-11
CONTROL BOARD
% By T2SGT. MAXWELL DUBIN

Now that "THE SPIRIT OF BRADLEY" will take to the air in the very near future, the 93rd is all out for the Red Cross Drive. The Control Board in it's very early issues of the BEAM had shown it's appreciation in copy. Now it shall do it in dollars and cents!
 The Battle of Bradley" had it's fling at the Stage Door Canteen the same week as "Oklahoma." By the way, all shows are cut to one- hour performances as the audience (mostly Allied Nations EM) must have their swing on the dance floor with the chorus cuties. BOB" is serving it's purpose very well. Its music is excellent! What it needs is more CT bookings-should cover all camps and stations. Although it's not as good as Cpl. Harold Rome's show "Stars 6 Gripes," it is far better than the "better" USO-Camp shows. Good entertain ment is always welcome by GI's- here and abroad-and BOB" is IT!
 The 93rd took over the Base Hospital for a three-day maneu- yer! Everything went according to plan! Cpl. Clarence Bailey and his gallant body of men started the offensive, and with the aid of the nurses and the Base medical per sonnel, all obstacles were over- come! Special concentrations to the Florence Nightingales" and their able assistants for their ex- cellent work during the tactical pe- riods. They really had the situation we'll in hand!
 DID YOU KNOW THAT
 Pfc. Thomas "Snuffy" Smith the "You Said It Girl"-boy Friday is saying nice things about Pfc. Henry "Hank" ZubricH again :? Seems that "Hank" does not lasso Snuffy's lassies anymore-for a while at least!
 Sgt. Leroy Robertshaw was al- most a married man last Tuesday :? The expectant blushing bride de- cided to wait another month or so just like woman (you never
Evening star., 1944-04-12
A Century of War

A Toxic broadcast beamed to the
United States says that Japan "is
reckoning on a hundred years Of
war" Then, by way of explanation,
the statement adds that "if the
present generation cannot fulfill the
job, future generations will carry it
on"
In making this observation on the
second anniversary of the American
surrender on Bataan, the Japanese
commentator presumably was not
talking about the present war in the
narrow sense. He knows, as all in
formed men in Japan know, that
they are going to lose this war and
that defeat will come within
relatively few years.
They can see this plainly enough
in the great surge of American pow
er across the Pacific-a developing
offensive which is forcing Japan to
a hard choice between risking deci-
Sive action, with all of the conSe-
quences that defeat would entail,
and a progressive falling back until
the homeland is exposed to ruinous
assault. There is no third course,
nor is there any real choice between
the two existing alternatives, for in
either event the japanese are going
to be beaten.
What the postwar future may
bring, however, is another matter. 1t
is one thing to say that the present
generation of Japanese militariSts
will be beaten; quite another to say
that future generations will not sur
vive and carry on the fight. On the
contrary. we may be assured that
they will if we ever modify our deter
mination to strip Japan of the
means of waging war or become
careless in maintaining a watch over
her. For the Toxic propagandist was
right to the extent that future gen.
erations of Japanese will never will
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Dapid Laurence

ernment of France. 1t is for this reason
that President Roosevelt has rightly
pointed out that the French Committee
Of National Liberation is not yet the
government of France. A tremendous
concession has been made in pledging
that the de Gaulle committee will be
given first opportunity to operate the
civil government of France once the mil
itary conquest has been achieved If it
is~then desired to remove Gen. Giraud
or any one else, 1t can be done but it is
imperative that Gen. Eisenhower's plans
for handling the French troops shall not
now be impaired by French politics.
1t will be recalled that Gen. Eisen-
hover was criticized for not consulting
with Gen. de Gaulle's committee when
the invasion of Sicily began. The ut
most secrecy was desired and it was felt
that the fewer persons not connected
directly with the military operations who
knew about them, the better were the
chances of avoiding leak.
The De Gaullists have won a notable
thing In the pledge given them by Sec
retary Hull and Algiers dispatches re-
port that the De Gaullists are much
pleased. That's where the matter ought
to rest. If Gen. Eisenhower wants Gen.
Giraud to remain in command of the
troops he has trained, that too is some
thing that ought to be permitted to rest
without the sniping of critics who in
advertently are playing into the hands
OF the enemy by stimulating more and
more dissension among the French.
After ALL America doesn't want any
French territory and is Offering Ameri-
can lives to liberate it, and isn't inter-
ested in who rules France, but does care
how many American lives are saved by
an invasion that is carried out as per
military plan.
Reproduction RIGHTS RexerxsdN
Evening star., 1944-04-12

then summed up his views of the
case as follows: I'm my opinion
the act was not designed or intended
to put an employer, whose sole pur-
pose and conduct are to give his
employees completely free rein in
matters of organization and COL
lective bargaining, on such a spot
that anything he may do will be,
or will form the basis for a finding
that it is, an unfair labor practice
So to conStrue the act not only will
make it a trap for employers, but
also would defeat the very purpose
the statute was intended to accom-
plish, by fastening upon employers
and employees alike union domina-
ton the latter do not want"
This is persuasive argument, but
it may be pointed out once again
that minority decisions do not make
the law. AS matters stand, and
especially in light of the implica-
tions of this decision, there can be
no doubt that the scales, if not
finally tipped, are at least heavily
balanced in favor of unions, and the
employer who tries to reverse that
balance before either the labor
board or the courts will find that he
has two strikes against him before
he starts
Evening star., 1944-04-12

de Gaulle wanted to depose Gen. Gil
raud, who has the confidence of Gen.
Eisenhower, it is evident that the
American Government is trying as tact
fully as possible to repress Gen. de
Gaulle's desire to rule French interests,
including military matters. irrespective
of whether he conflicts with the judg-
ment OF the Allied commander in chief.
In this war there must be unified
command. The British and other ma
tlons whose forces are fighting under
Gen. Eisenhower recognize him as su-
preme commander Gen. Giraud es-
capped from the hands of the Nazis and
came to North Africa, where for several
months now he and his troops have been
an integral part of Gen. Eisenhower's
command in the European theater. The
Germans, of course, would like to see the
French troops which have been trained
for invasion operations broken in morale
and disrupted on the eve of an inva-
sion because of political controversy
behind the lines.
The American Government has fur
nlshed huge quantities of equipment to
the French forces under Gen. Giraud
and is dependent on his manpower to
assist In the war on European soil or
else American fathers and others in the
United States will have to be drafted in
increasing numbers to carry on those
self-same operations.
just because Gen. de Gaulle doesn't
like Gen. Giraud or fears some political
prestige may be lost if Gen. Giraud is
welcomed at the head of fighting troops
is no sound reason for breaking up the
Allied military plan and accepting a re-
moval OF Gen. Giraud at this critical
moment.
Those who have been supporting Gen.
de Gaulles right to run the military op-
erations of French troops are assuming
that he holds authority as the real gov
Evening star., 1944-04-12
A Fine Response

In the same degree that failure
by the Red Cross workers to reach
their War Fund campaign goal
would have been a reflection on
Washington, their splendid success
this year is a credit to the city and
an occasion for genuine gratifica-
ton. Washington again lives up to
its reputation as a city that meets
it's obligations. More people gave
in this campaign than ever before.
More money was raised for the Red
Cross than ever before. Every di-
vision exceeded its quota and when
the final audit is complete Campaign
Chairman Lloyd B. wilson's predic-
tion of three million dollars in re-
ceipts, in relation to the goal of
$2,665 900, may be realized.
Raising that fund. even for so
worthy a purpose as the Red Cross
War Fund, has been no easy task.
It's highly successful execution was
due to sound organization and to
the efficient teamwork which
marked the effort from the begin
ming. Any one who attended the
report luncheons this year was i'm
pressed by the fine spirit of the
workers, which they obviously were
able to transmit to the contributors.
For in this years campaign the
contributors not merely gave more,
but their number was increased by
over sixty thousand. Washington
ians and their neighbors in adjoin-
ing counties have every reason to
be proud of a generous response and
every reason to congratulate the
men and women whose unselfish
labor as campaign workers elected
that response.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
This Changing World

been of great help to Russia, which in
1912 and 1943 demanded a second front
in order to compel the Nazis to with
draw at least so divisions from the
Eastern front, thus relieving the pres
sure on the Red armies.
From the immediate point of view,
the Allied operations in Italy have been
failure. Not only have we not attained
our principal objectives but we also have
lost prestige-if temporarily.
Every precaution is being taken to
prevent, in the invasion, repetition of
the setbacks suffered in Italy. But we
also know that the Germans are far
better prepared to resist the Allied in
vasion in the west than they were in
Italy. Military quarters look on the
forthcoming offensive as the one that
referred to by Japans military observers
in Germany, unless we have more bad
luck than we have had In Italy.
The Germans regard as great
strategic advantage the fact that they
will be on the defensive against an
amphibious force. They are so intent
on beating us back that they are with
drawing to the line they consider easiest
to defend in the east, in order to place
all their military resources against us.
The withdrawal in Russia has been
digested with great difficulty by the
German people, but so long as the SOL
diers understood that it was essential
for the safety of the Reich, it is not
likely to produce any serious depres-
sion of German morale. The Gestapo
is using its best methods TO keep the
home front in line.
At the front, 1t is said, special lee
Evening star., 1944-04-12

on It's brutal oppression and vicious
crimes against humanity. But the mill
tary commanders of the United Ma
tions-in this particular case, Gen.
Fisenhower-mustb be free to decide who
Is best to command any portion of the
armies to be used in liberating France.
Mr.. Hull's exact words were:
"Our first concern is to defeat the
enemy, drive him from French terri
tory, and the territory of all the ad-
jacent countries which he has over
run. To do this the supreme military
command must have unfettered au-
thority.
I'VE are disposed to see the French
Committee of National Liberation exer-
else leadership to establish law and
order under the supervision of the Al
Lied commander in chief"
This is as near to a statement of the
Importance of letting military con-
sideration come first as could be made.
Reading between the lines of this and
the recent dispatches stating that Gen,
Evening star., 1944-04-12

Let us take the statement on the
French Committee of Liberation. This
is brand-new statement; it is vastly
clearer than any that has previously
been made. and it is not in harmony
with past practices. Actually, it con-
cedes to the French Committee nearly
everything it has ever asked for until
about three weeks ago, when Gen.
de Gaulle for the first time in the history
OF the committee referred to it as a
provisional government for France.
Actually, there is nothing in Mr..
Hull's statement that is incompatible
with what Gen. de Gaulle proposed, as
method of procedure, in his speech
of March 18-and has been proposing,
for years, while receiving nothing but
snubs. Among the representatives of
the French Committee here the speech
has been received with immense salts
faction, and as a new step.
For the very first time-and in appar-
ent contradiction to previous statements
OF policy-Mr. Hull says:
The President and I are clear as to
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Child Selling Flower Seeds

HIS knock 1OaS timid, and as timidJ
he looked up, holding packages of
seed
lheyH 9ro1O nice fo1Oers for your gar
den, nla'am
says mere euery one is guaranteed. :.
FoT9Ioue, naSturtium and pheasant enc
(You should haze seen ho1U starrv
10ere his eyeS),.
here's Chinese lantern. Canterbury bell
SVeetped and one called bird OF para
diSer
His 10ordS mere like garden in them
SelDeS,
SOFT as petals, scented and beautiful
Ana Uhen said, "IH buy them all"
his face
Flushed 5oyouSly in bloom. Bet,Ueen
the dull
Gray cobbleStoneS, as he tDalked to1pard
the street,
1t seemed bright fo,Ders Spranq beneath
his feet.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
The Meaning of Odessa

OdeSSa'S swift recapture by the
onrushing Red armies is a psychic
symbol as we'll as a military achieve
ment. No contrast could be more
striking than its taking by the Axis
and its retaking by its own troops.
In the dark autumn of 1941, when
the ponderous German juggernaut
thundered across the Russian plains
with seemingly resistless momentum,
its defeat of the South Russian
army group commanded by Mar
shal Budyenny left Odessa isolated
except by water. since the Russian
fleet still commanded the Black Sea.
This port-metropolis was one of
Russia's big cities, with a prewar
population of 100000. Protected on
its land side by a maze of brackish
lagoonS, Odessa put up one of those
epic defenses for which the stubborn
and stouthearted Russians are IA
nous. 1t was a preview of what
later came to pass at Sevastopol,
Leningrad and finally Stalingrad,
where the Axis tide was met and
mastered The Odessa garrison
was supplemented by virtually the
entire civilian population. Only
after two months of ferocious fight
ing did the Axis forces, at enormous
cost, occupy the ruins of the city,
the surviving defenders having been
evacuated by sea.
No such price was exacted from
the Red armies in Odessa's retaking.
The breaking of the German defense
system farther north made Odessa
untenable, so the defense was
mere holding operation by German
and Romanian rear guards, who
now seek to escape by the rail ferry
across the Dnestr estuary into
Southern Bessarabia. But this Axis
foothold must likewise soon be sur
rendered. The retreating Axis
armies can find no natural defense
line until they reach the marshy
estuary of the lower Danube, where
that mighty river of Central Europe
flows close to the Carpathian Noun
tains before it empties into the Black
Sea. This narrow bottleneck, known
as the Galatz Line, must be de-
Tended at all costs by the Germans,
and desperate struggle there is
to be anticipated. But this will be
a new phase of the war in the east.
The fall of Odessa signifies that the
German adventure in South Russia
is irrevocably liquidated.
A brief epilogue still remains to
be written in the Crimea, where a
mixed German and Romanian gar
rison, now hopelessly isolated by the
loss of its nearby Odessa supply
base is under heavy pressure and
faces rapid liquidation. Russian
recovery of the Crimea will, in turn,
clinch mastery of the Black Sea,
provided the Red feet has retained
any measure of efficiency. Such
mastery would raise the possibility
of Russian landings behind the
Galatz Line on the Black Sea coast
of Bulgaria, with political as we'll
as strategic consequences. All these
contingencies further emphasize the
fall of Odessa as a major turning
point.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Represents Southern View.

To the Editor of The Star
The decision of the Supreme Court
1nvalidating the white primary in Texas
is cause for profound concern.
No State has contributed more to
winning the present war than Texas.
The entire South has poured out its
manhood and effort with loyal abandon,
And yet the Southern States and South
ern people are being subjected to a
sustained campaign of political aggres-
sion, supported by malignant propa-
ganda of defamation. A majority in
both houses of Congress has shown
itself ready to affront and injure South
ern people. Mrs. Roosevelt and the CIO
constantly are blasting at the social
customs on which separation of the
races has rested. In Washington, Ne
groes and whites, many of them from
the South, have been forced into con-
facts against which Northerners as well
as Southerners are reacting strongly.
Now the Supreme Court crowds the
South against the wall, confronting it
with dilemma which involves a fight
ing issue.
1t would be useless to ignore the fact
that Southern people are in a bitter
and Sullen humor.
Southern people have not been indif-
ferent to the welfare of the Negro. They
have used hundreds of millions of dol
lars, needed for educational establish
ments provided for the children of the
white people who pay the taxes, to en-
large the educational opportunities of
Negro children. The average Southerner
lives and dies without seeing trouble"
OF any kind between blacks and whites,
But the South will protect the integrity
OF It's white culture. If this country
wants an Ireland to the South of the
Potomac and the Ohio, it can create it
oy continuing the present policy of
evaporation and aggression.
ANNIE BELLE MINGLEDORFF.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

should have gained have been wasted
IN vain attempts to hold what could not
in the end be held, in vain refusals
to acknowledge by appropriate action
the grim necessities of defensive war.
Now the Germans find themselves over
extended in the north and center, while
in the south they are being driven back
with heavy loss over ground which they
should long ago have abandoned of their
own free will, in orderly withdrawal
Far worse than that, however, they
find themselves compelled 70 find more
and more troops for the Pripet- Carpa-
THAN gap in order to aver irreparable
dlSaSter-and this at a time when in
vasion in the west is drawing nearer,
and when they are still heavily involved
in Italy.
1t may be too late now TO gain the
necessary margin of strength by with
draWalS in the north and center of the
Russian front. Such Withdrawals must
come, but even If the German high
command can free itself of political
domination to a sufficient @xtent to do
the thing properly, on the grand scale
and at once, weeks if not months must
elapse before the divisions illus rendered
surplus can be used even in the Pripet-
Carpathian Gap, let alone in Western
Europe.
The Germans may have 5craped to-
eether enough troops for a local coun-
terotfensive in the Pripet Carpathian
Gap within the next few days, but even
then the Russian superiority in numbers
must check the progress Of any such
drive before it goes very far. And the
Germans can increase its power and
keep it going, only by taking troops from
Italy or from the west
Suppose that were the chNce? Then,
Of course, the German hieR command