European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In Oke year ago today president Truman arrived Berlin for big 3 two years ago today forces within one mile of european edition european i the stars a unofficial newspaper of anted ripes Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Cloudy showers Munich Cloudy answers Berlin Cloudy showers Bremen Cloudy showers Vienna Cloudy showers volume number 194 20 20 2 1 d july 1946 House passes British loan Bill a French Truman expected to sign Unity urged by Churchill july British wartime speaking Here today called on France and great Britain to maintain we have fought together for 40 years and we have done so we have contrary to wide expectation Churchill made no definite proposals for a Franco British Al Liance and failed to speak of the political situation in Europe in other than the most general v praises de Gaulle Churchill made Only one reference to Bis Well known Hopes for French bit Ash he said two Hundred years ago Pitt asked a divided British nation to come together As one he said that since they needed to do it they would find Means to do the smiling Churchill looked around the Long banquet table and maybe we can learn some from his Churchill spoke of Charles Degaulle Lin the highest i wont deny i had differences with lie but who now can deny Bis great Virtues and his great Churchill in saving Europe we saved but in saving 3 billion credit Grant july 14 the House late last passed the British the Bill was then sent to president Truthe Contos so loan was passed by a 219 to 155 vote Truman pleaded with the House that its defeat would United Nati an it Romance by former ambassador to is shown Dup Chapel in Frankfurt Whu his former a Atkinson of new col bid Stefe stationed in Frankfurt As chief of the Usset Allied Contact whue Biddle is serving As an Urra Liaison officer with the same absence eve cd penalty studied in control plan Paris salutes Bastille Day july 14 thousand troops paraded along grand boulevards today in the traditionally military Celebration of the 157th anniversary of the commencement of the French Revo Lution by the storming of the for the first As a significant indication of How much the French government has moved to the left since last years first postwar Bastille Day Parade held under the Degaulle armament workers from the Paris dressed in factory smocks and carrying marched in the place of Honor at the Center of the standing beneath the column erected on the site of the French Kings state where in 1789 a mob the first blow for the rights of Man by breaking open the freeing killing the Garrison and razing the building to the provisional president Georges Bidault took the Salute As the Parade moved by staff writer Frankfurt july by Congress is necessary to reinstate the prewar army ruling that Mere contraction of venereal disease by a Soldier is punishable As in the Wake of Public indignation Over the army admittedly record High cd rate in Europe and the disclosure Here that Joseph theater had dispatched Strong action recommendations to Washington to his Antisd Campaign among occupation Usset surgeons today pointed out that responsible troop officers were not empowered to discipline men infected with no loss of pay such As penalized a Soldier who spent time i a cd Ward prior to is an officer in the theater surgeons division no time lost in a Hospital for cd is counted a drafted the doctor penalty for and he receives no his indiscretion and association cd plan not Public although details of Mcnarney recommendation to the War depart ment Are not known other Usset sources believe that the commanding general has requested permission to supplement the authority of local commanders Deal ing with the increased venereal Dis ease rate in if new cases of cd continue to develop at the present explained one doctor 246 of every continued on Page new Tayas go Coupon books go into effect in Berlin today the stars stripes Bureau july new Payas Yugo Coupon Book will be introduced in Berlin tomorrow following a on week period in which part of of the american soldiers in the City were required to have their smallest purchases deducted from their cur Rency control books while others had deductions Only for purchases of More than the new introduced by the Berlin District win re place the original books sold by Omegus and used last week by All Omegus personnel in the Berlin District gis were not required have Coupon books last the Berlin District Book operates on a new system in that the Book is not to receive a Book of or 520 a officer or american civilian must present his currency control Book and a deduction will be he will pay no and will use the coupons in the manner of ration tickets paying for each Purchase with Allied Marks presenting coupons equal to amount of the the Omegus which will be honoured until they Are used were sold to personnel in 534 in order not to have two types of Coupon books in the Omegus agreed to accept the Type of Book w Taxman after nazis scalps july 14 Fiel Marshall Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop Anc nearly All other top nazis Are wanted income tax evasion literally billions in in amounting to United press Learned from Edwin Berlin Mitte finance depart ment that on orders from the City investigations have been made into the wartime earnings of hitlers closest advisors in relation to what they reported for taxation the whole Story May never be revealed because the files containing top nazi tax Case histories were ordered destroyed during the nigh of april Krause Krause thanks to Uno Fitial but Correct notes kept by a suspicious finance ministry official it has been established that hitlers favourites tax evasion Bill for 1943 was nearly at the same time that Goering was dragging Down a Fortune in tribute from concentration Camp victims he listed his 1943 income at less than the finance officials said he earned at least they will Settli with him for nearly for tha one year and the to to x issued by the larger Berlin District last Hughes slightly los july 14 Howard Hughes condition was reported slightly improved since noon but he is critical by Threa physicians attending the plane designer and picture we was critically Hurtin a plane eras press hails passage optimistic on Empire future from press dispatches july Britain labor government late last night officially welcomed the passage by the american Congress of the United states loan As a sign our american friends want to work with us just As we want to work with Clement the British prime would not comment on the passage of the the official statement came from Hugh Chancellor of the who said that the passing of the loan will hasten the tune when we an once More play our full part in the vigorous and expanding system f International we have a common interest in reviving Trade throughout the world and providing a Good Standard of living for men and women every Dalton bbl interrupts program the British broadcasting ook the unusual step of interrupt no its programs to give the americas j lord the British ambassador to the United said in a statement at Washington that he Anglo american credit agree ment would Benefit not Only con rating nations but also the rest of he the granting of the United states loan and what it meant to the British people was mannered across the tops of the front pages of All the London sunday morning along with the warning that the loan does not mean the end to austerity in Road Stuffl Uphill the sunday tempering the in an editorial let us look at the american loan not As a solution of All our still less As an invitation to relax our own efforts to solve but rather As a tribute to our credit As a great we turn the Corner but the Road is still most of the papers were generally optimistic As to the benefits of the loan and they told readers to expect More canned goods by More gasoline off the ration by the end of the year and that More Oil would be forthcoming to replace Coal in passed by a 46 to 24 tally in the with the administration having fought through both Senate and House to secure passage for the there was no doubt that the president would sign the in closing the proponents of the loan shouted that the Deci Sion on Aid for the United states wartime ally would determine whether the world will turn to Washington or Moscow for Leader collateral suggested final approval occurred after the House had beaten Back 219 to 154 an Effort to require great Britain to put up Merchantable collateral beyond that governments pledge to Everett my Dirksen r author of the suggested that As collateral for the continued on Page 8 allies report on Jap labor july m replying to russian labor proposals for today charged certain elements were using terrorism and untruths i attempts to establish regimentation of the japanese masses under leadership of the left the charges were contained in a statement issued by Douglas Macarthur economic and scientific which includes the labor it said practically nothing new was contained in the program proposed by it Kuzma soviet member of the Allied advisory Council for in his press release of july certain said the an Are trying by the usual methods of exaggerated application of terrorism and prevarication of to assume the leadership of the labor movement in the Hope of reestablishing regi mentation of the japanese masses under leadership of the left in lieu of the former regimentation under leadership of the the issued by the Public relations was not attributed to any but presumably it met with Macarthur approval Jap surrender brought about by air group says july 14 commission which studied bombing effects and other factors told pres ident Truman yesterday that Japan certainly would have surrendered before the end of 1945 even without the atom russian entry into the or any Allied invasion the bombing Survey asserted in its report to the pres ident that air supremacy was the major Factor which determined the timing of japans by questioning More than 700 japanese government and Industrial officials and translating Many the Survey put together a narrative report of struggle to end the War and asserted that emperor Hirohito and his chief political and naval advisers had decided As Early As that the War must be ended on any the report set these factors As the principal contributions to the sur Render blockade of japans sea communications exploited the Basic vulnerability of the Island submarines Sank 55 per cent of the total japanese merchant Fleet the Navy and the aah Sank 40 per cent so Long As Germany remained in the that fact contributed to the Core of japanese slight evidence exists that some Hope was held for the Long promised German Miracle russian entry into the Pacific War two Days after the Hiroshima atom bomb was dropped neither Defeated Japan nor materially hastened her acceptance of