European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday september 28 1945 the stars and stripes Mediterranean who won the War daily newspaper of the u s armed forces published for troops the the Mediterranean theater under the auspices of the information and educational Section Tousa publications office it col Robert Neville executive officer maj Robert j Christenson fiscal officer capt w f tout office 152 via Del tritone in u Messaggiero building Rome telephones publications officer 478536 executive officer 478110 editorial 478295 weekly and sports 478996 circulation 478640 night phone 478295 Naples editorial office 7 Angiporti foot of via Roma Naples circulation office 18 via san Carlo Naples Telephone 10600 acknowledgement made of the editorial services supplied by the United states information service and the army news service the stars and stripes is printed at the Plant of d Messaggiero 152 via Del tritone Rome entered As second class matter at the poc Toffice at new n under act of March 3 1879 mar Cau easy peace for Germany hit in press class system dear editor sense of humor dear editor i suppose i should be ashamed was ver surprised to see in a of being an officer actually in recent Issue of the stars and rightly proud of my accomplish stripes five letters concerning pfc be ments in the army i remember Browns att Bej miss Vorse Ninny time with any amount of ambition intended As a Little could have tried for a commission i fun directed at Galileo and science j sight of Paris sept widespread bitterness against an easy peace for Germany is reaching a Climax in the press of Europe and America in a recent Issue of Paris Post the american edition in France of the new York its Magazine Section carried a Lead piece under the headline who won the War the article written by Mary Heaton was a sketch of her travels throughout conquered Germany with descriptions of fat German babies welled and Well clothed that however i have read that for but apparently recoiling on Brown Mer officers do not measure up to j himself responsible executive positions in As the writers of the letters were civilian life i have a criticism of and British this notorious but widespread be must assuredly agree that the world Lief concerning the Over pampered has really lost its sense of humor britishers some of them French children must break their mothers hearts they Are Small and privileged officer class Foremost officers Are being kept on the Job overseas longer than enlisted personnel without Beneking up its sleeve upon receipt of lit of advantage or Hope Reward it is an absolute Pale thar eyes look big and reproachful a their train faces their Little legs and arms Are Mere pipe stems it seems to me the stars Ana Germany planned on a phys weakened France Caner in German officers that have positions ing them now in civilian Industry Are retained in the army solely new Justice congratulated president Harry Truman is shown congratulating newly appointed associate Justice of the supreme court Harold Burton Ohio left after a Brief conference Burton will resign his Senate seat on sept 30 and will succeed Justice Owen Roberts the following Day Acme from this interesting form of by line diversion in the future lest because someone must see to it some individuals suffer insults to that installations Are closed Down 1 their intelligence again and Flay properly we the officers have not gain the columns with scientific data and explanation which any fool knows in the first place de monetarily from this War what we have secured for our lets Reserve the column for More selves is the feeling that we have j justifiable arguments tried to our utmost to Aid in thei sgt h c Hendler Etc army and Many times the civil Ian and social life of a great Manyi Uri Kic tit jute Vruck now forgetful soldiers j Lumu Ihrk in View of All this let As try to i dear editor bring about a better atmosphere i to t3 John Morrissey and others Between pm and officer before we find Street Corner brawls Over the class system which at Cor Ding to a great Many officers does not exist it has to another Captain thanks dear editor i hear that very soon All americans Are going to leave Italy i would like to Tell them my feel who have the same idea As he has that Mother and father mean just As much to a Soldier As a wife and children i say just wait until you Are married and then think it Over if you still feel the same Way about it leave your wife and child and re turn to your Mother for married life want meant for people like Logan f Barnhart Ord there Are a loft of wives with Truman succession plan raises Many pros and cons by St Lyle Bowling staff correspondent Washington sept president Harry s Truman asked Congress three months ago to adopt a new plan of Suc cession to the presidency in the interest of orderly democratic it seemed probable that his purpose would be accomplished in Short order the details of the presidents plan As set Forth in his special message of june 19 won wide Public approval Early action seemed necessary the president said because his accession to the highest office had left comment on How Well the germans Ings and give them my thanks f or j children who Are getting along the time i spent with them i living with his or her family but have worked with Many Organiza what about those who Are not do tons and i always had a Goodie forget them completely a wife time without any trouble please retain some Good impressions about italians because there Are very Many Good people in Italy i wish All of you a Good trip Back to the a country to which i would like to go some Day Mario interpreter a fed no 3 who has Small children can not go to work if she has no one to watch her children and what she gets from the allotment Check is just a drop in the bucket what is she to do furthermore a Man who has never been married Doest know the score we Casciano inf Pup tent poets generally speaking say there fixing up the army to please All types of men there fixing up the army so you can enlist again but the privates kind of wary and the pfc s too smart while the Cpl needs inducement cause the army broke his heart the sergeants Arent talking its a cinch that they want out and the their shiny bars Are leaving that no doubt the captains Are disgruntled the majors surely Are and the colonels want their discharge cause they never got that Star so if you pats a general walking smile Back if he smiles at you me might have just pulled k Ore Eise tonight Hes on c q Bernard Hanc Verker r d in memory till we shall meet again my love Hoti my i oof to a pipe Here you lie As still As can be unaware of All youve meant to me Oer lifes treacherous sea and Dusty Road you have helped carry the heavy Load you have shared the heartaches and the tears and too the laughter which filled the years around the world across the sea you were indeed Fidelity when All seemed lost or everything gained the Joy of your presence still remained what takes you would cite if you Conid but thank goodness a pipe is Wood James Mathews Ord cause and effect for truth Therese fears for Hopes Therese jeers for love Therese tears and bullets Fly and Many cry and Many die my heart for me it should break for very want after the hell 15cse Llhee there sounds the meet again my love joyous to Tell keep thou this ecstasy j ask no More than just a dream s memory Drogt l Lester Gitterson aah that peace is sought the wars All fought gods world is wrought it Clarence a Williams inf Are Many prisoners of War husky men who had been eating i Treasury Fia Merican an Bra nation without a vice president and there will not be an elected vice president for almost four the men standing first and second in the line of succession when the presidents message was written were Edward Stettinius then Secretary of state and Henry Morgenthau then Secretary of the neither had Ever held their prison Camps the roads were full of laughing Young people bicycling in groups these bicycle clubs Are a great Fea Ture of German life we passed club after club of big handsome boys in their teens Ruddy of face with Strong heavy Bare legs and groups of girls to match them War this Side of the Battlefield had taken no toll of German youth Pearl Harbor death claim made on japs Cody sept 27 ans a claim against the japanese government for the death of a Wyoming Man in the Pearl har Bor attack has been filed with the state department a Cody at believed could have been elected to the presidency in their own right the Fin looking German children Byrnes qualified since the president made his Appeal for congressional action or Stettinius has been replaced by James f Byrnes its generally agreed that politically Byrnes is better qualified than his predecessor to act As president if that be have Ved and Krown Rostron Tell on the necessary but president tru Man has emphasized that no Given Ren of Europe the babies of Bel Gium of Holland of Norway of president should be in the position of the victim said yesterday the attorney l Simp son said he hoped Japan would be required to compensate for All deaths at Pearl Harbor before War was formally declared the victim was James Morgar Eidge 22 who was killed aboard the uss Arizona his parents Are or and mrs c b Morgareidge of Denver the claim mentioned no specific sum to choose his own successor in so j president Truman that the Narf Qto children in inders Dorf and thou Sands like been bled them elsewhere have been Aiea wite to give strength to z 3 2vt those Little nazis children toough1 Recomio ended Jyh Ajith Oto i second places in the line 01 far As possible the office of the president should be filled by an elected offi re said for this reason he and out Europe Are undernourished Secona places m me nne 01 Suc cession be Given to the speaker of under strength and dying because the German children ate their miss Vorse then ends her article with the question the Paris Post used for its headline who won the War change to woo uniform scheduled after of 1 Caserta sept 27 the 14 major commands under Tousa have been advised that troops in this theater will change from cot tons to the wearing of Wool uni is a forms at such a Date appropriate after oct however the exact Date when the changeover to Winter clothing will be made is left completely to the discretion of each of the individual major commands themselves the House and the president pro tem of the Senate ten Days after the presidents message was received the House voted to repeal the succession act of 18s6 which put the line of Suc cession in the Cabinet and to place it with a new act which would put the speaker and the president protein of the Senate next alter the vice president in the line of succession to the presidency the House declined however to accept another of the presidents principal recommendations that if a double vacancy in the executive offices should occur More than 90 Days before the Halfway Mark in the presidential term a special session to choose a new president should be held in conjunction with the next term congressional elections and president Protem Are officers in the sense required by the present succession clause of the Constitution Complex Legal arguments Are presented on both sides of this question and each set of arguments is convincing at least to its own exponents never tested it is True that the first succession act to be adopted by Congress placed the president Protem and the speaker next in the line to the vice president also it made pro visions for a special election the presidents plan is closely modelled after the succession act of 1792r but it is contended that this act was clearly constitutional the act of 1792 was never tested in the courts there was no Occa Sion to test it for succession has never passed beyond the vice presi Dency in the history of the country it is expected in Many quarters that Congress will abandon the Truman Bill As embodied in the Bill already passed by the House and seek a change if at Alloy Way of a constitutional amendment this general tendency is indeed coming to be characteristic of administration circles Here the administration has a Complete and detailed program for most of the problems confronting the nation and the world but what washing ton politicos Are noticing these Days is loud proclamations of a political program Are followed by Long periods of legislative inactivity the program of the administration reads so far it has not passed out of the verbal stage which is a matter of concern to enemies of the late president Roosevelt policies who feel More and More that they Are achieving Italy was added to those Nai officer shall act As president in their Central purpose despite ver tons which would receive Urra the Case of a double vacancy but so far entirely unconstitutional the new president a would then serve the remaining two years of Tousa s directive also pointed term but it was quickly pointed out that the con out that insofar As theater supplies Primea our Oliai me permit requisitions would be filled the president is from class a stocks Hora of lace a term f a year ago today in stars and stripes shall our Yea shift was but one of the series of constitutional Points since raised about the plan of succession advocated by president Truman one of the other Points is that the speaker Aiichi the president Protem care both members of Congress and the 1st airborne army was i As such would be ineligible to Suc forced to give up its positions St need to the presidency Arnheim the 5th army battled j the Constitution gives Power to to regain Heights before Boio Gua Congress to provide by Law what help it is Loftt Enrid by opponents of opposition
