European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse The Antinazi underground yanks Tough grained account of the second world War the differences Between Ger i Many Little known anti Hitler underground and the widely re ported Antinazi resistance elsewhere in Europe Are striking and probably very pertinent to any question of Ger Many political the resistance in the satellite countries was a continuous popular movement which took in a sizeable proportion of the native its existence was common knowledge and thousands shared in even though in most cases their participation May have amounted to Little More than expressing an Germany Active opposition was con fined to a few men in High who worked among themselves with Little or no attempt to organize the Public against the they were pretty much just a group of refined Stro Garm men whose object was to get rid of Hitler they were less representative of any democratic forces in Germany than of the inter ests of certain particular chiefly the army and the Junker Aris hoped to seize political Power within the Reich by removing the Man who held it at the the inside stories of the plots against which have been dribbling out since the wars end in the testimony of captured German offi Are just now being Given to the Allied Public in detailed two boo length accounts have been published by Macmillan Ger Many by Allen Welsh head of the Oss Mission in and they almost killed by German born As Gero at least two other accounts Are forthcoming soothe diary of Ulrich von former German ambassador to and the Story of Hans Bernd onetime Gestapo later con tact Man Between american agents and an anti Hitler and probably the most often mentioned of the plot ters against the creator of the perfect is Back on the new York literary scene after ten years much of that time his reputation was under the Shadow of suspected collaboration with the nazis during his internment in France and with most of this written off As innocent Indis Cre Wodehouse returned to his work with a Good Deal of he has just presented his Public with a new full has three others scheduled Lor publication this year and and is working on two play versions of the current crop of childrens books offers one which might be of particular interest to the pcs younger depend it is by Claire Huchet Bishop a Story of Friendship Between a group of French youngsters and two american a new Book which promises much for children of All is William Pene Dubois the 21 bal loons which tells of a san Francisco schoolteachers confident at tempt to Cross the Pacific in a balloon and his baffling descent in the Assembly line note metro Goldwy Mayer film in a modest statement on the efficiency and Speed with which Book manuscripts Are examined for movie Points to the Case of Sinclair Lewis 1945 Cass which is to be released soon with Spencer Tracy in the the Galley proofs of the Book were received at the studio late one the next Mem declares the novel had been summarized in detail for literary motivation and and had been passed by the editorial by saturday afternoon it had been purchased for somewhere along the we it had also been former Secretary of state James Byrnes will enter the literary Market next fall with the by of his speaking Frank Walter whose life begins at forty was the sensation of a few years is under contract for a new belligerently entitled want More and get the weeks reviews i Story of the by the staff of the army edited by Debs Jonathan and Richard 319 Sloan the Twenty one editions of i scattered around the were in Good position to cover a global this they with considerable skill and not a Little Good now three former yank Edi tors have culled the editions and come up with what is quite surely the Best running account of the War published to its told in the words of yanks who were and illustrated with on the spot photographs and As the i Story of the this is not an if youre looking for the fiction and humor that brightened yanks youll have to look somewhere unfortunately some cartoons have been sad sacks and one have Only a Remote connection to the accompanying text and might better have been left but if youre look tog for an straightforward account of the War and How it was fought and what it was you look any among the current crop of War is unique in that theres special no Char Acter no adulation of this or that theres scarcely a Point except the almost inescapable Point of View of the men who did the perhaps Best expressed in a sort of Benediction on the books final Page the scribbled names of american soldiers Are big and Black on the Walls of the fortress of one of them says Austin Austin this is the last time i want to write my name War is a pretty Tough and in reporting it yanks correspondents have come up with some pretty Tough stories and doubt there Are those who will prefer to look the other but quite possibly those who were at Guadalcanal and Anzio and the Huert Gen iwo or any of the other pieces of real estate that were purchased at such a High Price would have preferred to look the other one of those who look Graves registration sergeant this to say to sergeant Ralph Martin the ones that stink the worst Are the Guys who got internal wounds Are dead about three weeks with the blood staying inside and rot Ting sketches by Howard from yank i but they All theres Only one stink and that it you never get used to As Long As you live you never get used to and after a the stink gets in your clothes and you can taste it in your e you know what t think i think maybe if every civilian in the world could smell that then maybe we have any More presumably there will be no end of books about the but theres not much Point to another history along the lines of it does for War ii what Earmer Stallings prophetically titled the first world War for an earlier when youve finished the Book mail in a Plain to your nearest show me the by Leslie 322 although it comes pretty close to being an extended this novel of a combat veterans con fusion and enlightenment is an absorbing and fairly substantial anyone who has Ever stood in a line or swapped rumours in a i latrine will recognize the models for wallers assortment of Stock types sensitive Young returnee grop ing to understand what its All about the eager Radical who is sure he knows what its All about the wench slightly Fla Happy i along with his the Victory girls and War wives the victimized jews and negroes and their abusers the 4fs and self congratulate ing purchasers of War Bonds and the denizens of the rickety but Waller has an understand ing Eye and a sensitive touch and he has arranged All these familiar figures in a pretty moving pattern of War time tragedy and the author is a Twenty Fourbear old Veteran and show me the Way is his second Hes Well Worth keeping an Eye the atomic by John 297 Henry written by the editor of a science fiction this Book is designed for the Lay Campbell tells in simple terms and explains in simple images something of the history of scientific research in Gen building up to the emergence of the atomic bomb from the experiments in nuclear whimsically illustrated by Leo Alfred Loritz continued from Page 10 a meeting with a of German r the women do with German Loritz shouted at a there is Coal they buy them to by Thenee military governments official Man language according to a press dispatch March declared it was not an official i Organ and charged it contained some of the rashes there Are few papers in Bavaria which do not mention Loritts name often in connection with some waspish the Neue Freie Presse in on March 18 reported Loritz being called the Blond Hitler from i and added dryly that to truth his hair has been Gray for a 5 Adena dispatch reported that t i Loritts chauffeur had been arrested Passau for stealing automobile Loritz called this a outside Bavaria other German t newspapers Are taking up the mannheims scored was leaders tactics Irr an i editorial entitled Shefl Loritz and m Heidelberg Rudolf editor of the Rheinnecker and a prominent communist party commented on Loritts Lack of i Loritz says he has received thousands of letters concerns ing his activities As a so Many that neither i nor my tries can read them All and almost All Are in support of Asa party Leader Loritz has had a is a matter of military record that his was was on the Point of being outlawed More than the which apparently has redeemed itself and Aims being Active throughout is by paid Loritz said to pay them four Hundred Marks a month and Rule them with an Iron his Best organizers Are said to be former noncommissioned officers of the German where Loritz finds his party finance user Riddle not yet com in units say he gets it from would be resurgent the social democrats gets it from 7 Loritz we dont have he we Are in after the last election we did not have enough Money to Telephone balls or office the was has no membership Loritz Money comes in Only f through subscription from friends of the heroes not specify who the friends at any to military t government Bis comparatively was group spent Money in Nurnberg Furth m the last elec tins than Cut largest of the an used in All r impoverished or party has a Youthful vigor and is under his strict promising Early revival of employment for All greatest possible Jid to recon Nihon Little business and Security of personal was is steadily gaining sup in Loritts Star be on Flie but Adolf bitter in the Early con men himself the appointed Savior Germany is also people Are not laughing any More at the almost i comic figure Ufeo takes off his coat to make a blazing my party will v Yoa will Sot be Able to Stop it Are reverberating in Bavaria despite the was leaders there Are Many both Gerv j Man and who see the Sibo Ity of a new nationalist revolution a which might give Loritz dictatorial Powers in the name of 17
