European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes june Zarifi edition printed Tork her la Tribune 21 Roe de Lor tuft armed forces under Nices at information and Duea Tuott London Nice Flung and new Tork 3tmi contents pm std o8 and entered As second Daw men the under set of Pairoh Vot Aii editorial our russian ally w7hen supreme court Justice w Hugo in his resent los Angeles assailed that american minority which has been whooping up talk a tear with he voiced a sentiment which finds Quick response among american lighting for some Relson which Tad Little hard to understand at this a certain vociferous group the american press and Public has already started talk of a War with while our com aides Are dying to the Orient and the blood has scarcely dried on the battlefields of with the signing of the san prands co in which fifty nations pledge themselves to work for Rossia together with America has taken the first Siep toward settlement of the Many Complex prowess which plague this sick War without end every now and then a Long delayed letter pops up from gals Wei met was far Back As our Basic trading Days since those Days each new location meant a new now for the 64 Dollar a lot of us will be Home on of these Days and Wal the afo snafu us by forwarding these let ters to our Home and wives or will they make arrangements to return any letter to their sender if so re not be Able to make Arra Nife Mettzs Lor the Apo to Chect your mall and separate those letters sent by girl friends from correspondence that Jou dont mind your wife that person in this dilemma arrange to All tote array mail when he cows civilian forwarded to some trusted f seems a Good time to revalue our own position in the scheme 6 and to pledge ourselves to a considered Atti tude toward our friends and it is admitted that most americ ans find the soviet political Philo Sophy incompatible american it is understandable that our russian allies May View our form of government As foreign to their needs and backs but there is nothing in the actions of either Russia or America to indicate these two powerful countries desire anything less Titan the friendliest of rela i we Are assured by our govern ment that its contacts with Russia have never Bee More those who interpret every soviet move in screaming headlines As diabolical and warlike and who egg Hottois hostility which leads to War Are play my directly into the hands of those warmongers s who cannot it would visualize a world in which the Strong As Well As the weak can live together i Budapest Trogon wedding Only 32 plenty of Chirls to meet by Howard Byrne stars stripes stall writer june 20 City reminds you of an elaborately iced wedding cake Sonie one has stepped Budapest Creaty architecture is now Shell stained and Tjie famed Bridges that once spanned the Danube Between pest and Buda now lean listlessly into the Eliza Beth Bridge which is Only has been ingeniously re paired by russian engineers and is now crowned with huge portraits of Molotov and Dallas who drove associated press correspond Mem who fought the while the red army was Dri tag the Cave nothing but affection russian to this confusing with the world upside nerves on Edge and its passions colouring is there Are Many who find certain russian gestures hard to fr51 Awakening its is play ing a diplomatic Ttaha Erwith its Bare Knuckles the how5verrdlff Littlecrow Muthe Well a wed diplomacy Practised by but As they develop in their strength and the russians seem to be Awakening also to their in family of t Moricas fighting on St tag there finally giving the go a he has his own Paris night Cognac at 50 cents Champagne a Orange de 40 cents a where b thy sting Tommy Connally and 11 5 title firm Art for the past few Days German pcs have been washing the Ceil Ings and Walls in our yes after they i notice thata Swastika had been smeared on to a yet unwashed portion of the i informed the Sergeson charge of the quarters and he in turn notified an the officer looked at it and its not very forget and walked to that seems like the very attitude that caused us to be caught with our pants Down at Pearl and will catch us again if we Are not germans have been forbidden the use of nazi emblems and even the nazi in keeping with that i think that some sort of punishment should be Given the entire group responsible for the aforementioned everyone agrees that the German must be taught that we mean to relax about Little things now Means great Deal of trouble for ourselves in the we win have failed it he prefers jacket i the most comfortable wearing garment issued to them is his Field jacket on Titis Post the co has strictly forbidden us to Wear the ruling also pertains to think its a the goes everywhere in his jacket in a of the neigh Boring and pm Are authorized to Wear the which books much better on a sol Dier than his Blouse wont someone do something about this silly Channel base Dent Abe Goldberg and myself through the said that thou Sands of corpses were still buried under Budapest collapsed build we could smell Townsend pointed at two which had drifted the Danube and now rested against the remnants of a wharf near the he said they were probably bodies of victims of hungarian who had murdered thou Sands of Budapest citizens and thrown their bodies the a everyone in Budapest agrees that the whose insignia is crossed were even greater thugs than the out in the Middle of a Small russian gunboat was Mak ing its Way but other Wise no traffic Icove on one of the worlds longest now badly clogged with sunken barges and German Gas a rare sight about the rarest sight in Buda aside from an undamaged is an american thirty two Gas and 16 officers com prise the american Section of the Allied control which is headed William who commanded the 45th Dir Back in the and who is also Veteran of the aleutians key was out of town Dur ing our and cot Townsend was acting commander of the Amer i sin Budapest is filled with russian soldiers and hungarian troops who guard the Headquarters of russian famed marshal senior officer of the Allied control com Only other americans in aside from the military mis Are a handful of Gas and civilians who work for the Amer ican state department under minister Arthur i Budapest everyone walks in the Middle of the Street to avoid being buried alive in Case of fal Ling pro Gress has been made in Clearing but work Toas been badly hammered by the Lade of the work is much further advanced in pest than in which suffered heaviest from the bombing and the siege of pest lasted two after which the germans retreated across the Danube and blew the which enabled them to hold out for five weeks the terrific artillery carried out at Point Blair Are the Misin reason Budapest is one of the most chewed up capitals in All Budapest civilians must work on cleanup Many of the women we saw Labouring with shovels worked in afternoon dresses and High costumes Are in congruous because you Wear whatever part of your cos tume you have been Able to Swaun it out by Maui Iii whom fall the personal tragedy of aay have no antagonism toward on the con they Admire and respect the soviet forces which assumed so great a role in the Victory Over have been comrades on the american and russian together with blood of Many has been shed to win european men who can fight together can plan Ivan and i Joe get our diplomats can lets not have a lot of Volunteer troublemakers in be tween succeed in separating us through suspicion and 2 port pita win plaques june Antwerp two main Harbor the and j3th major a Jiff transportation have Beni awarded meritorious service to Iii Superior per of in of exception by difficult tile awards were made Cor the Suc cedi of us compleat pm of missions prior to Antwerp sick of women the Masang thing about Buda pest girls is that in spite of the horror they have lived they Are As Chic and immaculate As the women of their cos Tumes Are and somehow they manage to add a of it is quite a problem apportioning our 32 Gas to several Hundred thousand hungarian girls who Are anxious to meet i am sick of said Man Dan of los who is attached to the naval Sec Tion of the american like has lost most of its shopping District and Fine including the hungarian and St Only the Britannia hotel and like the hotel Imperial in now billets rus Sian As Townsend drove up Buda pests fancied Andrassy which corresponds to the we noted that the huge Monument which years of hungarian history but along Budapest famed Ste Phay and in the Park which adjoins damage is heavy the museum and exposition Palace arc both sad children were playing in the and russian soldiers strolled looking things but they were More interested in flirting with the hungarian girls than in the russians in opera we drove Pas the Budapest opera House where a Long queue of red army men waited to buy i marshal Vor Shilov occasionally drops in at the opera with visiting firemen and occupies the Center which is always reserved three Tommy gunners guard him while he enjoys the per Budapest prewar population or dropped to Hal that figure during the bitter Battle for the which took a heavy Tou of people Are now trickling which strains the Budapest bread now Jast on half ounces a person anything else must be bought on the Black at insane the russian government has forbidden the Slaughter of which takes fresh off the Market milk is unheard of in even for and few left tables be found because Farmers transportation for into the City though stands Waist High i the Tow peasants say they Witt be unable to Harvest the crop because most of the farm tools have disappear Eov Ordy 25 percent of the usual crop was seeded last i signs of a Oyei d m but in spite of the privation the Outlook for Garys there Are signs Ufi Gayety in Gypsy orchestras Are beg mining to tune Jet again in tiny proprietors apologize because they can serve you nothing but oort Gypsy music and bad the political talk in Budapest cafes is that elections for the Hun Garian parliament will Btu held to after which a fireman Council various tical parties win Rule count expatriate Anu not still living is expected it return shortly and will be a Sci under i the american Mission is living palatial stole because property owners Are glad to have the americans rent free in the finest apart ments to prevent from being looted one Young lady whom ask for directions in the Street Meggett us to come and her apart ment during our stay in she said she stayed alone with Ner Mother and would be 10 have us around for Protection from Power and water turned on Esther american pm from South Bend work ing for thear american said thousands of civilians had died starvation during the Bathe Budapest to addition to she herself had spent the entire period in a basement and had on dried horse meat Cut at night from Tot Ting carcasses to the the water Supply was Cut off people suffered terribly from the russians now have the Power and water turned on again in Budapest and even a Street cars the happiest Soldier in the ican detachment is Cpl John who was born in when the american Mission was up in East an exhausted woman presented Hen seut to of and saw she had travelled for 4ft Days by horse and foot on chances that the americans would her to Contact her who visited the before the War whom she thought might be m the american he would Forward th6 inquiry the War department if the woman would write out the name am last known address of her the name which woman handed Back was John Wheeler opened the door to the next office and called his Cpl to see his today Paris area movies with Errol metro Marbut with Kijora Cregar and George metro Midnight at hangover with Laird Crew and George metro stage snows j Gay French metro Empire passing through French variety Vic Eon Spany from London in arms and the metro Madeleine jeep Mickey Bobby Breen Ames metro Stags door 1980 Danlag Moo might cd but Hue one Macat one Olvet Tofta George movies with Wau Acu Berry Hon and Rue stage shows musical Placa miscue Laneous Cream and civilian gotta allowed Jtb Sims tknni3 Anar balls bhr4 Polar Baa
