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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 4, 1947

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Morton Gudebrod weekend photographs head of cases French Mission is major general shown holding enough cloth for a suit one item in the textile Paris a Man knocked at the and delivered care packages last week to Morin and her daughter tears welled in their for they knew they had been Morin is concierge of the the Tomb of and live in a Little on the grounds that is Well remembered by More than fifty american airmen who were shot Down during the War and were clothed and sheltered by the Morins while awaiting a Chance to the Allied one Day the Gestapo and the Morins were sent to nazi doctors there used Yvette for human Guinea pig and Monsieur Morin died after hours of when the War ended Morin and Yvette came Back and took up where they had left off Nineteen Long months the care package from the containing delivery of a care package is accomplished within a few Days of receipt of the order shortening White was a sign that the americans had not forgotten them in their the Little drama at the Morins Home is a scene that is being enacted at a rate of four Hundred times a Day somewhere in Franca since the French of the cooperative for american remittance to has swung into its full since volume deliveries in France began last care has delivered nearly Relief Par cels donated by the american pee and is now filling about twelve thousand orders a in its offices on the Rue de Crenelle care officials daily bundles of orders sent by air freight from the new York a clerical staff goes to work on them rimmed and in a Short time the parcels Are Way to the recipients from one of three care Ware houses in and deliveries Are now made through a French parcel delivery service which hands the parcel to the addressee in person and obtains signed receipt from the bulk of the parcels processed i through Paris Are sent by americans relatives in but at least Twentyfive per cent of the total Are ordered by former gis who want to repay wartime kind Nesses by French according to major general c who retired from the army last fall head cares French about ninety five per cent of deliveries so far have been food but orders for cares new Blanket end textile packages Are each Blanket package contains two Al Wool army surplus which Are readily converted into warm even Needles and a and two pairs of composition heels and soles the package three and on half Yards of Woolen in a fourteen ounce herringbone make a three piece suit a Large buttons and sewing materials Supply everything i to the while the clerical work in is care can now Guarani delivery of a parcel anywhere Ift France within a few Days of of the provided the address Correct and Complete but so addresses Are vague that care to maintain a miniature so far Treyve usual succeeded in ruling the one former i sent in a naming a Small town in Alsace that it be Given to the oldest girl a family of seven that lives near Crossroads one Kilometre West of he had forgotten the but he remembered the Girt got in touch with the located the this Type order is a Welcome Challenge to care and  go to length to fill but addressed to Are Lessly incomplete and have to be Back to new York for with the individual a careful checking system sures that care packages go 4  
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