European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the Sta Sand stripes March 1945 hold that line to All jeep truck and Crane commandos and tankers those Telephone wires Are import each leads to a vital unit that May be assisting when one is on the shoulder of the treat it with if it is Over head at a Road lift it out of the at night this is Al most but most of the Breaks occur in lets Start a Saveth wires All it takes is an uplifted Arm or a slow Takeoff on the shoulders of Wireman building Confidence our battalion co misplaced his Musette bag and made All his Bat Talion officers bring their bags to the office for the Trust such a Leader must have in the men who Are to follow him is also questionable is the respect any of the officers May Salvage after such an seeds of disunity the average person rarely real izes just How successful was the German plan to orientate the thinking of the american Public in the period Between world wars i and orientation which helped to pave the for the Early Ger Man there Are those forces in America and throughout the which Are consciously and to the carrying out of the Well established plans of the plans in the very recent words of a German will enable Germany yet to achieve a great moral Victory in this tribunes record Speaks for itself the unenviable record of the Chicago Tribune Speaks for it is not the purpose of this letter to discuss the pros and cons of that the recent publication by the Tribune of a list of men in the army with alleged communist affiliations does interest primarily because two of the officers on the list Are per Sonal friends of we were in the states together As enlisted men overseas together for the North african operation As enlisted men commissioned together in the Field together As officers in the italian neither is the purpose of this letter to defend the officers in their individual records not Only in this War but prior to this War Are their if such defense be As american were willing to sacrifice their All for the cause of Freedom in the testing ground War in at a time when the democracies were still under the in fluence of the fascist when the was they again left their families and volunteered their and right from the beginning have been in the thick of fights in in in in Sicily and now in Italy and int it about time that we americans became a Little More mature in our criticism and evaluation of the evolutionary forces of our time when will we Stop calling red every fellow citizen who is not Content to passively but who actively works for a better Way of life for America and tie world the stars and stripes Paris edition printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de Lor the firmed forces under auspices of the information wid education special and information Elv tees other editions new York office 205 contents passed by the army and Navy entered As second class March at the Post new under the act of March 238 that in this critical moment of the world struggle around us the names of heroes should be allowed to be smeared in the pages of one of americas largest newspapers and then to become the subject of congressional investigation and All that at a time when these very men Are still daily exposing them selves to enemy More than even the most slap Happy German propaganda agent could have expected in his wildest German Hope is this the Type of postwar har Mony and the better world for men everywhere Are giving their very existence the should be justly proud of this Brazen new contribution to the plans of the enemy to Divide the United division which is the sole German not of Victory which will enable her to begin the underground construction of an even greater would it not be More fitting that Congress investigate the fascist affiliations of the Chicago Tribune Adam red what makes with these Washington boys who Are afraid of the communist taint nowhere have i heard a Peep out of them Ane Rrt scanning the officers Rolls for those May have or May still sympathies for fascist there is much fret Ting test a Man with leftist affiliations win for himself a position of Sig in marines always Landing you state that the presidential unit citation awarded the 101st airborne was the first such award in history Ever presented to an entire just to keep the record the first Marine of which i was a was awarded a similar division citation for Guadalcanal and i believe the third Marine was also cited by the i also noted a remark by a Soldier of this splendid airborne division who said sure in we got something those marines aint got after they received this Well deserved but if you will Check you will find that the marines also have that situation in col perhaps we should have made it clearer that the Wist iras the first army division to receive such an an editorial Hope for the future Here Are seven Points in a recent speech by commander Harold Stas Delegate to the approaching United nations conference at san fran Cisco that As a nation we will join with cur present to build a definite continuing organization of the United nations of the based on Justice and Law and insured by that we do not subscribe to the extreme View of nationalistic sovereignty that we realize that neither this nation nor any other nation can be a Law unto and that we Are willing to Delegate a limited portion of our National sovereignty to our United nations Organiza that we consider the future welfare and peace and happiness of the people of Harold Stassen America is inseparably intertwined with the future welfare and peace and Hap piness of that we will use the enormous productive Capa City of to con tribute to the gradual advancement of the standards of living of the Peoples of the not As recipients of but As self res petting men and that we believe in free Dom of information through press and radio and school and that those who were aggressors in this War shall be stripped of All Means to make War and shall remain so that we Are and propose to remain a democracy of free citizens and will explain our system to the world but will leave it to the Peoples in each nation to decide for themselves their own form of govern ment so Long As they do not trample on Basic human rights or threaten the peace of the world things Are looking 9th clears Rhineland cities of civilians As a safeguard with ninth army on the 21 evacuation of German civilians from Westbank Rhineland cities has been completed As military authorities launched a Campaign to tighten safety precautions in the entire pushing household belongings before refugees choked key roads leading to the rear in compliance with the order that they leave communities bordering the simultaneously orders were issued that soldiers should strictly observe regulations requiring them to carry allies evacuate Norse from enemy Arctic ish March 21 the request of the norwegian High British and Canadian destroyers evacuated More than 500 norwegians from the Island of arms at All times and urging them always to travel in although civilian populations have remained the army is taking no chances that i Divi the a norwegian communique the naval Force steamed to so above the arc tic in Broad Daylight and took aboard women and children who had been mustered in the Vicinity by a Small military expedition previously dispatched to the the necessity for remain ing armed and prepared at All times was being the main roads running out of Uerdingen were jammed with i j milians who used every possible Means of conveyance in fleeing from the Riveredge baby carriages and hand trucks were sprinkled along lines of slowly moving american guns poured thousands of rounds toward the Rhine Asci milians struggled to the occasionally a German gun but the civilians hugged the roads despite the threat of shells that might land among them at any new australian Force san March 21 Australia has assigned additional splendid strik ing Macarthur for use when strategically australian army minister Francis Forde Why dont you just chock grenade in and blast Fem Saar collapse costs enemy Coal and steel in the mighty sweep of third and seventh army troops which linked up West of Kaiserslautern Germany lost the Coal Fields and production Center of the encircled Saar and a Region which chose in 1935 to place its lot with the nazi fied under the terms of Trie Versailles the Region was placed under a league of nations commission with the provision that a vote be held 15 years Saar inhabitants had their Choice of re entry into the Union with France or continuance of the league of nations guardianship in a plebiscite Saar by an overwhelming returned to Germany the 743 Square Miles of which by 1939 had a population of the economic importance of the Saar lies in its Coal its re about 70 Square Miles in Are estimated nine billion in addition to Hitler lost the blast furnaces and steel plants which dominate the Saar River scene from Saa Brucken to Volk largest of these plants is the Verein get which made Armor plate the Saar has been a Trade and military thoroughfare since roman German tribes fought there against the French under Louis Xiv and marched through the area and the first engagement of the Franco russian War was fought at the leading allies warn aliens to flee death trap1 in Ruhr March tons by Eisenhower urging foreign workers and German Civi lians in the Ruhr to flee the area and seek shelter elsewhere were broadcast last the proclamations advised that the Ruhr will become a death trap since All armament industries in that Region must be no shelter or Refuge within the Urban areas enumerated can be considered the message districts mentioned As combat areas were Reicklin Shau Lurenen and the supreme commander urge immediate warning civilians your life depends on immediate execution of these foreign were exhorted to live for your family and refuse to die working for