European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Them rats them dirty cold blooded Sorc he add stinking hum them atrocity commit ii skunks in the germaries seemed to go out of their Way to sabotage wineries. They were just like dogs what they could t eat or drink or carry away they messed up so nobody else could use  one. More crack Tike that an a wont have  scr Job Back after the  it the wartime army is a citizen army and it has in its enlisted ranks Many men who in civil life were not accustomed to being directed to the Back door and the servant s quarters to taking orders yes but to taking indignities no 1 Beautiful View. Is there one for the enlisted men i never worry about hurting the feelings of Good officers when i draw officer cartoons. I build a shoe and if somebody wants to put it  loudly announce that it fit that s  affair.". Haven t a tried Gittin one of them Veteran Loans Pete. If the non Veteran citizens do not exert a Little More Effort to help sex servicemen. Constructive Aid so that the Veteran can regain has place in the society he was forced to leave then the citizen must expect the   in. A Veteran Ain t got a  i Don t Trust the army i Don t like the army and i even poke Furi at its recruiting program. Perhaps under All the pompous and High sound ing words i have mouthed about Why we should have an army i want to have it around so i can draw More pictures about  infantry divisions with which i had spent most of my time in service. In View of the fact that a lot of the draw Ings had dealt with purely local  tons which had significance Only i combat areas and were often a source of puzzlement in places even so near the War As Paris and Rome i had not dreamed that people Back Home would like the  when he returned to civilian Lif Mauldin hoped to continue in the same vein. I had taken it the interest he said As an indication that Home folks were interested in the War and the individuals who fought it arid that As Long As they were interested i had planned to come Home become Veteran and draw Veteran pictures. I entertained a Hope that the general incan t Tell whether he s a War embittered Young Radical or a typical sound 100 per cent american fighting  although i am not qualified to speak with authority on political matters politics and the people who Are mixed up in them interest me very much. I have Many political opinions Al though few of them Are hardened to the Point where i can see no sense to the arguments of a Man who opposes my  Terest everybody was showing in the War and in its literary and pictorial products would mean that for the first time i history a nation would try to make up to its soldiers for what they had sacrificed by going away to fight its  at first he did continue in that vein putting Willie and Joe through the same situations As were being faced by most of the other newly reconverted civilians. They had their troubles , sweethearts landlords Shoeshine kids employers relatives and  returning to school Home and factory were having difficulties som of them humorous in readjusting their lives to civilian Tempo. At first Mauldi mirrored this but soon a sort of shocked Surprise appeared in his  sense of fair play honesty and decency was outraged on the realization that once the shooting War was Over no one seemed particularly interest Din in Ose things which the Doug foot was supposed to be fighting for. He became especially indignant on the subject of racial and religious persecution. Like anyone else who fought in Italy he was a vociferous fan of the Nisei whose exploits there bordered on the legendary. When the Nisei returned to Californi and took a Nooe too gentle pushing around Mauldin boiled Over. When veterans could t get Homes jobs Auto mobiles surplus property Good hospitalization or most anything else they had been dreaming of for several years Mauldin picked up his Sledge Hammer and  More he swung the madder he got. Wherever he looked he seemed  something that needed swatting. He swatted away manfully but it is rather doubtful if he succeeded in accomplish ing much of a nation wide reformation. It was t Long before Mauldin was engaged in a crusade against a rather imposing array of individuals an organizations from the Kun flux klan through Westbrook Pegler to the communist party and including such diverse elements As the daughters of the Amer ican revolution advertising agencies and the. American legion. He was inhere punching but the results did t seem to strike editors As particularly humorous. And As if to add insult to injury the objects of his crusade seemed to show a remarkable resilience to his attacks. Weekend March 13/1s18 continued on next Page 13