European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Radio although Ray previous experience in the radio Industry was limited to an encounter with a drowning i had already developed an acute aversion to the business when i made my first and Only broadcast i have Only the com fort of knowing it was made to a listening audience smaller than even the Hooper people could the transmitter that carried my words into the Ether was a Low Power Job located in ber with hardly the strength to reach the surrounding Coral i let myself be coaxed into it because it was part of a gambit of my own by which i hoped to soften what i thou it was unthinking i was sent to Bermuda to cover the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in when they were on their Way from fallen France to take Over the running of the their itinerary had been widely since they were travelling on a Neutral american but the hastily recruited Bermuda Board of War censors were acting As though the Dukes Advent was As top secret As the rendezvous Point of a munitions we american correspondents  get a word out of the islands except insipid handouts from government Bouse the head censor was the proprietor of a Large department and cd been having my troubles with one when he asked me if i a few words on the local i thought 1 detected a chink in his from the Way he talked about i could see that the station was his it broadcast one program a a Brief series of Quarter hour spots that made the most of whatever local or visiting Talent could be dragged for a while i played hard to so that he would feel i was doing him a great favor by giving and when i finally consented he rushed me off to meet the station a Florid gentleman in Khaki shorts and sport shirt who called All males either blokes or he was heartily reassuring when i explained that i knew nothing about Public speaking and that the idea of talking into a microphone frightened not a Bitof old he nothing at All to be afraid Only a Little you no Range at All not Many radios on the and mostly they done of he has i pfc the you Fine and i suppose will be listening with i Hes guest always telephones in after each period and says a word of Bucks Era you there was no getting out from under so it was that i would and lib fifteen minutes on How the describing the Workings of the press which i was then pm with me in the Days preceding the Broad cast some of the other correspondents and new Reed men got to know my impresario and to their Joy discovered that he was completely taken in by that form of wit called double if we told him that there was a dirty Rumor going around that police had discovered a Fra less half Way be tween the Pren sat and the Dukes bathroom he just said whats that Chappie and when it was repeated a few times he would change the subject he looked As if it made him worry about his the boys decided that my Woad cast would be an Ideal medium for spreading double talk to a wider audience in and insisted that i work it i eventually because otherwise i was threatened with ostracism by my own but i doubted that i would Ever summon the nerve to carry it the studio was a Bare room in an office it contained a a few a floor nuke and an other Mike sitting on a Plain table before which there was a straight Back Kitchen i followed a lady and Bucko led me on tiptoe to the straight chair at the table As she was reaching for her final several of my fellow newsmen lined up against the Wall behind whether i blew my liner or got through with the double they  but i was in a cold sweat t there were a few seconds then Bucko boy made the introduction and i was on the with feeder question from my Bloke to get me after the first minute or it want so i knew mar sub and i just tried to forget that anybody was but As i came into stretch realized that i Haynh uttered an unintelligible word and my tormentors were right behind me waiting for the and Teli something about the communications system of such a widespread said leaning Over my shoulder to get in Range of the its very com int it it certainly is and x knew very Little about it but i saw my with a wild abandon i talked about pan Abric relay of olivers and sub mating re tutors that connected with Fra tomes in every news Bureau except those on the 3abx breathed Bucko As i wound up in straight English in sure this has been a most in formative and talk for All our when it was Bucko Ted us into another room where he poured drink for All my companions lifted their Glatise to to conspiratorial and the phone Bucko bottled off to answer it and returned in a minute with a look enormous that k just rang be to say How much he enjoyed your i bowed my Bead there was no message from the sidewheele1 Washington steams into port on Maiden surrounded by Small Harbor painting hangs in a Biomonte wheel land Bremen is marking the Hundredth  of the or Mil of the first mail ship from the Bremen anew Era in the mails was inaugurated when me paddle wheel Steamer Farr teen Days out of new unloaded its first cargo of mail and passengers at Bremerhaven on june it was the same year that the Post of fice adopted gummed postage and its a tossup Winch had More influence on 1he nations postal sys adhesive Stamps Are still with and although the Washington the Ocean steam navigation gave up after ten a jars of unprofitable mail the event marked americas entry into the transatlantic Mai carrying an Enterprise previously handled Only by the British Cunard the Centennial of the washing tons Maiden arrival is considered important enough by the citizens of land Bremen to Call for an All Day a Monument suitably inscribed has been designed for it will be in form of four Stone Steps leading up to a semicircular Stone it eventually is to be topped by a Model of the which unfortunately be finished in time for the dedication ceremonies planned jointly by Bremen and Wilmelm president of the land Bremen Senate and lord mayor of Bremen will preside at the morn ing ceremonies in at which a Model of the Monument will be an afternoon program is planned for to which Gen eral Lucius Clay has been invited As Honor guest about thirty other americans Are expected to be on hand to represent military government the Centennial Celebration is to close with a banquet in Bremen when the Washington arrived in Bremerhaven a Hundred years ago Germany was a Loose federation of separate America was settling bade to reminisce after the mexican War and the first Telegraph from Baltimore to had it was a Brave new and four teen Day mail service from new Tom to Europe was just what the Brave new world american backers of the Ocean steam navigation company considered mail service from tace to Lis Bon and be the Cunard lines carried mail Only to from where h was transshipped to the continent Dudley american Consul at and a Bremen Arnold convinced the company that Bremen should be the terminal Point for mail instead of any of the scattered european ports under the German states of Oldenburg Hesse and Thurin Gen and two Frankfurt and contributed raised by to Back the american backers raised about and the government supported the project with the service was expensive and the fourteen Days often stretched to by the time the company abandoned the other american companies began to compete in the transatlantic mail and passenger the Washington was retired from Active and on Bremen historian thinks the ship took Over the Job of ferrying Gold prospectors around the Horn to a painting in a Bremen museum depicts the Washington in a her glory with Small sailing vessels scattering her he frightened vague plans have been underway in Bremen to bring the Washington Back to the Harbor for the Centennial no one sure whether she has been reared to some quiet dry Dock or whether she was broken a sister the not lenten Nial has been lost instead of merely pm soap Fifield