Evening star., 1946-01-27
Why the Perfume?

United States do not have private flush
ing toilets.
Why the Perfume?
"You ride on the subway and the smell
almost knocks you out. Garlic, sweat
and Perfume"
French subways today are over
crowded. hot, untidy and smell bad.
You smell garlic because the French,
who are superb cooks, use more of it
than we do. You smell sweat because
the French must use very poor ersatz
soap-and don't get enough of that.
You smell perfume because French
women would rather smell of perfume
than of an unwashedness which they
dislike as much as you do.
''The French Uillages are pigsties.
They pile their manure right in front
OF the houses or in the courtyards
Some French villages are pigsties.
Others are not. They do on the whole,
look much dirtier than our small towns:
they are lot older, too. The malodor-
GUS custom is practiced in many VII
lagos throughout Europe, including
many German villages in South and
Central Germany.
Crazy Drivers
"The French drive like lunatics. They
don't obey traffic rules; they don't use
common sense"
Most Frenchmen are probably not as
skillful drivers as most Americans
Their traffic rules and system are
inferior to ours. But foreigners who
drive in America are astonished by the
speed, daring and recklessness of Ameri-
can driving. Our automobile accident
rate is the highest in the world.
"The French aren't our kind of peo-
pie. The Germans are"
The French believe that all men are
born and created equal. They believe in
freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
the rights of minorities, government of
the people by the people and for the
people. What do the Germans believe
in? You can't tell what Germany is
really like, because you are not seeing
that has been beaten, conquered and
occupied. You are seeing a Germany
that has had the arrogance and inso-
lence knocked out of her.
"The Germans are easier to get along
1Dith than the French, because the Ger
mans ore laW-abidtng"
The>Germans obey the laws-even if
the laws are barbaric laws. The Ger
mans obey their leaders-even if their
leaders are savage, corrupt and obscene.
The Germans obeyed Bismarck, Kaiser
Wilhelm and Hitler. Would the French
have obeyed such men and such policies?
Would we Americans?
Troublemakers
"The French are troublemakers; the
Germans are really peaceful at heart"
Who started the war, anyway? Who
started the trouble making? The
Germans invaded France in 1870; the
Germans invaded Belgium and France
in 1914; the Germans invaded Poland
and Czechoslovakia in 1885, Three wars
started by the same nation in TO years.
Incidentally, one of the most effective
propaganda weapons the Nazis used
from 1888 to 1889 was the constant cry:
1--WE Germans want peace. We will
never go to war. Our aims in Europe
are satisfied"
It's all reminiscent of the story of the
two drunks. The first kept beating his
friend on the head with a club, wailing
all the while: you're my pal, my buddy,
my best friend, and I love you" And
the second replied tearfully: II believe
you-but you have such a funny way of
showing it,"
And How About the Krauts?
"The French troops in Germany had
the 1Oon,en terror,sed.
The French Army, as any other, had
to cope with disorderly conduct. looting,
rape and other acts of violence by their
soldiers against enemy populations. If
you think French soldiers misbehaved
in Germany, you might ask how Ger
man troops behave in Poland, Russia,
Greece, and Holland. A great many
French women have been in terror of
American troops, especially in Paris.
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