The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-23
BY CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
 Written for the Combined American Press

Naples, March 23. - (UP) - Possibly the single most brilliant example of the Anglo-Amer.can exchange of war effort in Italy can be seen in the rehabilitation of the great port or Naples since its all but complete destruction by the Ger mans in October, 1943. To day it is the chief port of the Mediterranean theater. Its efficiency ill cargo dis charge is rising rapidly.
 Last month 249 ships, excluding schooners and small craft, were either discharged or loaded by the port. Over 3OO 900 tons of cargo were discharged and 71.O00 tons were loaded. (Today about 40 per cent of the discharged tonnage is Italian civilian supplies which is and should be good news to the suffering people of Italy)
 Conveys arriving at short inter- vals are unloaded and turred around within 10 days. In spite of the Wreckage left by the Nazts the first Allied convoy entered Maple har- bor on the afternoon of October $, 1943, two days after Ut. Gen. Mafk w. Clark's Fifth Army had liberated the city. Since then the harbor has assumed an even more normal ana buster appearance.
 At one of the rebuilt piers lay large Trench cargo ship. The ship, operated by the United States snip ping Administration in Washing ton, had been berthed by the royal navy. It was scheduled to leave with American and British cargo bound for the Adriatic port of Barl' where it would be berthed by the Royal Navy again and discharged by British soldiers.
 There could be TO better example of Anglo American cooperation tnan this and others I saw in harbor o1 Naples. One Of the first examples was the loading of the great shining white hospital ship, Oranj, former Dutch liner, carrying British wound ed back to their triumphant nttle green island.
 With the regularity of clockWorK British Red Cross ambulances, as- sisted by American MP's, rolled up the gang plank, while other wound ed were carried upon stretchers py British soldiers who wore on thelr shoulders the red and white insignia of medics.
 I talked to three young men who were waiting on their lltterS 10 pe carried abroad. They had all been wounded while serving in British units of the Fifth Army. One or them summed up the spirit of the cooperation when he remarked sim ply that we have fought in one another's battles and recuperated in one another's hospitals
 The second sight saw In tAe harbor of Naples that told great story of Anglo American comolneo efforts was a big one used in the fighting at Anzio. The G. Is ana the Tommies called 1t "AnNo Annie" It was waiting to be loaded to be shipped to the United States probably to sell war bonds. It ought to sell plenty of them.
 climbed up ladder to the top. 1nclQenLdlly, liOeAAoeo 'AAN
 of an American soldier scrawled on the steel-Pvt. Richard Cable of New Preston, Conn.
 Two sightseeing privates armed with cameras were scrambling like myself around the great gun. One of them asked question which had been troubling me ever since had tried to get the immense length or "Anzio Annie" into the range oi my vision.
 T wonder" he asked, how they are going to get this thing on board of any ship It doesn't look like there's a crane big enough in the world to lift it."
 That night Admiral Sir John M. D. Cunningham, commander Ill chief of the Allied Mediterranean fleet answered the question: and the answer also told story of Anglo- American cooperation.
 T should not worry about Anzio Armies" he said. Ask the Royal Navy and the 540th American En- gineers to put anything on a boat They'll do it."