European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1948 soviet army philosophy seen reborn As new political weapon editors note Ellsworth Ray american expert on rus declares that the communist concept of total War has won out in Russia and brought about a revolutionary change in soviet military in the following entitled what the russian generals Are former chief of the army russian eco nomic says the soviet Union does not want a shooting but if it the soviet Union till discount the importance of atom bombs As decisive and rely on morale and attrition for the following was condensed from the Magazine United nations world and distributed by the month of february 1947 brought a revolutionary change in the soviet unions military philosophy which in its potential consequences May be truthfully compared with the political changes that in Russia in the change went generally unnoticed in the outside even though it Shook the armed forces of the user from top to with it the soviet Union embarked upon a path of coordinated military divorcing itself peace seeds coming Over Twenty thousand seeds peace Garden containing packets of vegetable seed collected by the National Council of state Garden Are in route to Lewis National the National Council initiated the Campaign to Send vegetable seeds to Europe last fall through state Garden club the first consignment of sufficient to food for was routed Fol lows units to the american zone in Germany to France and to Holland contributions from Garden club members in american communities will be continued until shipments have reached hunger areas in Europe where seeds Are not from the German prototype on which its former theories and practices traditionally were Pat a new military philosophy was born and today it confronts the rest of the in its simplest it is the soviet version of total far More comprehensive in time and in men and in strategy and in methods and attitudes than the German total that seems primitive by came without warning the change came rather unexpectedly and without warning in the midst of a violent but effectively concealed argument be tween the communist party and the marshals of the red the role of the the soviet order of things was completely redefined along lines which Stalin himself described As the three major characteristics of the red according to the red army first a weapon for the liberation of workers and peasants from the Yoke of landowners and capitalists second it is an army of brotherhood among the Peoples of the user and it is imbued with the spirit of inter Dewey signs Bill raising salons pay a Albany Thomas Dewey has signed a Bill in creasing the salaries of state legislator from to a the which becomes effective assures present members of the legis lature about for their work this Dewey recommended the in crease in his Harmual message but he set no salary the figure was the result of a Republican party Dewey and legislative leaders were reportedly in favor of a some members mostly from the new York area wanted the salary in crease will Cost the state about a Here is an architects drawing of the worlds largest produce terminal which will be built on the Hudson River waterfront in the hew a self support ing will Cost but it will assure a 000 savings in metropolitan new Yorks food extending feet along the River from Watts Street to Warren Street with a Width of 625 the overwater Structure will fake up 32 acres for receiving and distributing the tons of fresh fruit and vegetables that come into the City an army of world an army of workers of All the strategic concept which thus reemerged is outlined in Deuil in the classic manual of the red this is marshal Boris Shaposhnikov the brain of the red a two volume work the role and functions of the Genera staff in Shaposhnikov accepts clause wits German military author itys Basic Tenet that War is n continuation of politics by other proposes to go far beyond according to War is the highest form and the most important weapon of assumes total character thus War assumes a total and permanent every act of the and its individual parts represents a tactical move to implement the strategic con in the Light of this development it May be stated categorically that the soviet Union does not Wane a shooting War in ten years or at any time in the the outbreak of a shooting War would constitute evidence of her com plete political military thinking in the soviet trance birth held painless j Ondon Joyce car i Ter dreamed about Olsen and Paulette Goddard and and when she woke up she found she was the Mother of a six 16 ounce As easily As the re haired 25yearold wife of a London civil servant became the first woman in England to give birth to a baby while it was she i Felt no pain Carter entered a Southeast London nursing her a Canadian whose name she with sat by her bed and stroked her in a Low he retraced again what she do when the baby i remember the doctor talking about Olsen and Johnson while he was putting me to she and i had been Reading notices of the film so i had a dream in which Paulette Goddard and red indians All got mixed but somewhere in i knew i had to ring the Bell for the the next thing i remember is opening my eyes and being i had a in out of my trance but my husband is still in a years March 1943 x and British planes bomb in and rail Yards at in a daytime March 1944 a of tons of High explosives and incendiaries Are dropped on Berlin by bomb ers escorted by British planes in a Daylight March 1945 first army troops crossed the Rhine Between Cologne and cob Lenz establishing a Bridgehead on the Eastern March 1946 president Truman declares he will not intervene in the general motors March 1947 and French foreign ministers arrive in Moscow for the opening of the foreign Union now Recognises the integrated role which the soviet armed forces this is the major theme of military thinking within marshal Alexander Vassilevsky general staff in which today younger officers Predoti a review of their writings re Veals continued preoccupation with land warfare in which they recognize the soviet unions greatest actual and potential air attack discounted a belief that any future May be decided by a massed at tack from the air with the lavish use of atomic and other absolute weapons seems to be discounted and even frowned How then do russian military thinkers envisage the shape a future War according to them it will undoubtedly Start with a mass attack from tha in which the attackers All kinds of absolute fading to a temporary economic paralysis of the on this soviet military specialists state bluntly that they do not expect a decision in the first phase of the future they Are emphatic in their belief that War will continue Long after the first fallout since a final decision can not be gained they expect the War to Settle Down to a protracted period of this indecisive strategic assault is expected to be followed by the second phase in which conventional armaments Are again expected to come into their the decisive phase of this imaginary War is its in which the nation attacked mounts Pavlenko of the soviet Gen eral staff Calls the strategic coun it is in this third phase that All new weapons Are put to effective tactical use with an appropriate regard for vastly increased mobility and it Aims at the Totaj annihilation of the exhausted and Defeated this phase ends with a what Branewski Calls operational Pursuit on a strategic scale in which Jet planes and self propelled rocket artillery play a predominant from a description of the future War based on original soviet sources it is evident the russians expect to be attacked inthe first and to mount the strategic counteroffensive in the in the words of major men rather than mor ale rather than atom will decide the next address All letters to b bag stars and stripes Apo s in clude name and address names Are deleted on due to space letters May be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the pipe smokers want better tobacco since i have been unable to get any satisfaction from the Post Exchange i feel that i must weep on your newsprint shoulder constantly upon entering the Post exchanges 1 am confronted with the worlds worst and cheapest pipes coyly displayed in a bouquet of pipe no for four to my personal knowledge the Wiesbaden area has been without pipe True there was a Small consignment of alleged pipe tobacco from the which a Aroma hat could Only be acquired through Long association with tear that Only lasted three and please dont Tell me about the pipe that is my tobacco for my pipe line civilian this is just a complaint for All of us pipe Hast been so Long since we could get smoking but it Doest seem that the pcs carry it any since it is against regulations to Send tobacco overseas from the and it is darned inconvenient to have to tear up Cigar ets to fill your does yes expect us to do can they give us some reason As to Why they cant Supply us with pipe tobacco i editors note the above with signatures were forwarded to the chief of Neucom special services for his reply follows True Neucom Exchange system had an oversupply of inexpensive which were obtained from quartermaster at the end of the the Exchange system also has sold Meer Schaum from turkish the finest in the these pipes sold from to in the states they Cost from to yes has on order English Briar pipes in to Price they Are expected in Post exchanges in Spring or Early As for smoking during january shipments of pipe to Bacco did not arrive in the command from stateside suppliers As causing a general this situation has been corrected by expediting shipments from the states and redistributing tobacco stocks remaining in 93 March editor chief William Summers executive editor John managing editor sports editor Euis executive manager Maurice Kirkwood Hief distribution service Bernard Mcculgan Frankfurt 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