European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes pot shots at poop sheets Here is my definition of if anyone has a better i would like to see poop is pointless prepared and published by staff sections without regard to or though disseminated to lower it is designed to impress higher authority with the Erudia importance and eligibility for promotion of the particularly the distribution is in important except that copies must be sent to the person sought to be impressed and it must be sufficiently distributed to insure an adequate use of form is All important and substance of no no one will Ever read it anyway except some poor Devil Down below who will try 10 remember it but cant be cause his mind is already befuddled with the mass of conflicting poop he has already the opening paragraph must contain a reference paragraph by to All army War department circulars and both pertinent and and to All previous poop the second paragraph must paragraph by All previous there must be Many end subparagraph of All indented to the exact on sixteenth of an it is usually classified As top secret and never less than As otherwise it might not be considered of grave importance not in keeping with the position and dignity of the better Days Are letter a Edga a 30 45 on the subject of drafting says it is de sired that in the drafting of directives every Effort be made to avoid j the needless citation of other direct directives should be Clear j and wherever should permit compliance by donate units without research by them into their files of other direct every Effort will be to have every directive Complete in the less study of other Docu they would help the enemy As at now if our foot troops have to i doubt if anyone will advise them to take time to fill the craters if it is a Hasty in a planned it without be part of the plans to fill these lets All Stop and look at both sides of the situation before we look at the viewpoint of those men who filled these Shell might some logic behind the Ems Van the More satisfactory will be its is daddy cute my recently asked his is daddy cute Steve is now 28 months old and i have never seen can this be a Lea for More action on 30day leaves to the for those of including who have been in the Eto More than 3 capt my not so Joe will some one please Tell me Why so Many mostly to have so Many i flashlights now look we need those flashlights Here and plenty we have just about one in the so if you have a Light and want to get rid of it Send it to not the we need Johnnie to fill or not to fill replied to the rheumatic deacons bag advising them to Stop and think before complaining about being ordered to fill in abandoned Shell i agree that Shell craters and mortar installations might provide protective cover for advancing enemy foot troops in counteract but at the same time our troops could advantageously use these craters and mortar install Zions As defensive positions to do their Best to Stop these enemy they would assist our As More than the stars and stripes Paris edition printed at the new York Herald 21 Rue de for the armed forces under auspices of the information and education special and a formation Tousa other editions new York office 05 42nd contents passed by the army us Navy entered As second lass at the is new under act of 2lq peace forever Germany most pay for this before it is allowed to Start Grover acknowledgement a few months ago a Soldier arrived overseas like some of his professed no definite belief in an almighty he reached the lines and soon began to realize How trying it to rely on personal More than once he found himself calling upon god for several weeks went by during which time he remained in the combat his doubts about religion were be ginning to having developed he was transferred to a while lying on a cot one night his mind began to wander through his past experiences and it was then that he Felt the presence of i sometimes wonder if Many of the Fellows returning from the front Ever think of the numerous times they have relied on god for night while lying in the Hospital doctor did an act of Congress make medical officers gentlemen it seems in some cases that it did or what excuses have they for their Rowdy conduct please keep in mind some nurses Are Over Here to take care of patients and not just to entertain lonely officers let those whom the shoe fits be guided big 3 clarify Frances position 21 France has been assured that the big three made no secret agree ments at Yalta about the govern ments of liberated countries of eur France had Felt the big threes foreign ministers would determine policy in the periodical meetings outlined at and that if France agreed to help administer the affairs of disturbed she would have no voice in deciding in answer to a second query by the what channels would be used for exchanging in formation among the Allied Powers on the liberated big three replied that regular diploma tic channels would be the White is sued an announcement regarding the invitation handed by ambassador Jefferson Caffery to Charles de asking the Gen eral to meet president Roosevelt in the which was was Given to the French Leader six Days before Roosevelt arrival in for most disappointed the president stated in the invitation that it was impossible for him to come to the announcement and that he hoped de Gaulle could travel to the president was most disappointed when advised that de Gaulle could not questions of Mutual interest and importance to France and the United states Are the president i wanted very much to see the general before leaving for while the White House announcement merely ascribed de Gaul Les refusal to the press of official bus the United press said that Charles de Gaulle Paris press comment and state merits by de Gaulle himself have shown clearly the general was piqued because France was not invited to the Yalta state department officials were inclined to minimize the the up while it did not help to smooth franc american rela these officials did not believe it foreshadowed a major French explain rejection of for bid Roosevelt invitation to Charles de Gaulle could not be accepted because it came on the heels of the big threes Yalta de conference in which France has not taken part and whose multiple Aims she was still French government said yesterday in an official state the sail to have been written or edited personally by de also explained the rejection on the ground that the invitation came at a when Many affairs demanded his presence in the French statement concluded de Gaulle begged the ambassador to assure Roosevelt that he was still hoping to see him come to where the govern ment and the population at any time would be extremely Happy to receive French newspapers differed in their opinion on de Gaul Les a the sem official be Monde supported de but other Paris dailies declared that France was in no position to play the Grande coquette at this be Monde maintained that de Gaul Les rejection was not motivated by Hurt France had asked to be invited to the crimean conference because she was directly interested in most of the problems be Monde she could not accept commit ments without having discussed she could not be placed be fore the accomplished fact and be obliged to take or reject decisions voted without but the conservative Aurore declared that France should avoid showing bad which is a sign of pointing out that France did Well in getting the Alliance with Aurore said bluntly but do not let us give the impression that we can High hat our other they will need but we shall need giant plane flies in 8 21 giant Lockheed the largest land plane transport now in opera flew nonstop from to Miami yesterday in eight hours and 43 the All is about the Constellation holds the pres ent West to East transcontinental record of six 31 the plane be used by army on the Africa Orient up front with Mauldin ill never splash mad on a do face again 999 ill never splash ind on a do face again now will a help us Ernie Pyle writes across Back to War by Ernie Pyle in the Marianas 20 we Are far away from everything that was Home or seemed like five thousand Miles from Africa and Miles from my friends fighting on the German twelve thousand Miles from Sidi Zid and Venafro and Troina and  As unheard of on this Side of the world As Are Kwajalein and Chi Chi Jima and Ulithia on the other Pacific names Are All new to except the outstanding for those fighting one War do not pay much attention to the other each one thinks his War is the worst and most and unquestionably it by plane from Honolulu we came to the Marianas by air plane from the weather was and yet so Long and grinding was the journey that it eventually became a blur and at the end i could not even remember what Day we left Al though actually it was Only the j Day As soon As we were in the air Max Miller and i took off our neckties and put on our House West of Pearl Bor military formality immediately drops for in Honor Lulu All naval officers must Wear but the moment you leave Pearl Harbor they come off and you never see them Mere dots in the Ocean we made but two stops in journey to the Marianas and How we Ever found those two tiny islands is beyond for they were the merest dots in the wide but they find them All the so who am i to worry j our first Stop was at four hours out from Hono As it came into View i was shocked at How tiny it it is hardly bigger than a few air plane carriers lashed together and it has not got a tree on yet it has been developed into an Airfield that will take the biggest several Hundred americans live and work the is magnificent Tafiti most of the soldiers and sailors Wear Only shorts and Are deeply the Way i feel a life of quiet escape out there for a while would be but the boys there Are tired of escape and the Monotony of the place gets on their chasing darkness gradually the passengers went to sleep in their there was nothing to see out of the windows but darkness a Long night Over the Pacific Lay ahead of the night was extra Long for we were chasing it was after Midnight when we could sense by the motors tone and the pressure in our ears that we were coming we could not feel that we were turning but we for now the Moon would be High on one Side of us and a few moments later it would be Low on the Side of us and suddenly there were smack underneath lights of what seemed a Good sized Little and then at last we were on the ground in an unbelievably bustling Airport the eating with men and planes and the place was that not hard to pronounce if you dont try too just say Kwa Juh its in the Marshall during last March and april american soldiers and marines Kil led japanese and opened our Island stepping Stone across the even today our Seu bees cannot dig a Trench for a sewer pipe with out digging up dead but even the Island is transformed As we so rapidly transform All our islands that Are destroyed in Tak it is a great air base naval officers met our plane despite the hour and loaded us into jeeps and drove us a few Hundred Yards to a mess a Cool night Breeze was blowing and it seemed wonderful to be on the ground even such scant and borrowed ground As this for an hour we Sut around a Whiteline Ned table and drank Coffee and sipped iced fruit you would hardly have known you were not in and then we were off to Fly through sightless night and on