European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes March 194jj London editor tells Why he quit communists fhe b bag i 4 tvs trl 11 w 4jv j v t finds reds policy seeks a hons destruction editors note Douglas editor of the London communist newspaper the daily has resigned from his Job end from the communist party in protest against the soviet unions attempts to commune in the following Hyde sets Forth the reasons for his by Douglas Hyde w i my t de on since the soviet Union declined to be associated with the Marshall plan and its behaviour i have been con Vinced that As a briton and Christian i could no longer be a member of the communist it is out to drag Down to the lowest economic Levels All the Marshall plan its Aims Are the economic and Industrial disintegration of great in Niy capacity As controller of Home news of the London edition of the Dally worker i know this the communist party of great Britain secured a copy of a Brit ish experts report on conditions in the nation should Marshall plan Aid not be this report estimated there would be Between and unemployed and the population would have to subsist on an even lower caloric food the communist instead of helping the present administration to offset this grim deliberately set out to accelerate h by provoking unofficial and generally sabotaging product they were willing to workers and disrupt the food production of the whole country in order to create misery and despair and thereby Towin Over to the communist cause millions of people who hitherto had proved intractable to the Bener fits of i was in the thick of unemployed of the i know what mass unemployment i regard it As a very High Price to pay in order to ensure the relative Prosperity of Eastern eur is the real basis of the communists opposition to the my conscience As a Christian and a briton would not permit me to continue to serve after world War the sponsored feed Europe plan robbed the soviets of a Chance to foment a Europe wide revolt j profiting by that authorities were deter mined that America would not again spoil their schemes even if it meant dragging Down the whole of Europe to their Low economic either wittingly or the present Board of control of the London daily worker is sup porting that policy today and so is the British communist As an executive of the daily worker i never heard of one editorial Board receiving any directives from Moscow As to the editorial policy to be adopted that would be too the editorial policy is dictated by the local communist party and by slavish adherence to the Atti tude taken by the soviet the Tass service and the soviet since formation of the co inform policy the worker has taken a still More virulent my task in the direction of Home news always has been aimed 40 Cut in Cost of leather reduces retail shoe prices Klew York High Cost of shoeing the family appeared today to be going Price cuts ranging from 5q cents i j3 at retail have announced by a number of women shoe manufacturers following a lowering of calf and suede leather prices of about 40 per a handful of retail stores Al ready have reflected some of be others will not a o March 1943 in new Allied ground troops occupy the Mamba re River area 100 Miles South of the Jap Aneke base at March 1944 v violent fighting continues in the Cass Fco sector in with Ger mans parachuting More reserves into the Handt hand combats in the City and on the Abbey March 1945 the Highway Bridge of ludwigs Hafen and the main Bridge from the City to Mannheim of the East Bank Are destroyed by retreating German March 1946 president Truman announces a six week postponement of the atomic bomb test against originally scheduled for May is Bikini atoll in the March 1947 the Senate passes a Bix Matlaw ing in Portal pay suits along with any Bac wage overtime claims filed under the Vag hour act and two other Federal be apparent to Tfaye shoe buyer until the first fall shoes reach stores in late Spring or Early summer Industry sources predicted the would wipe out of the Price increases of the last year by iut insisted that further Price reductions were not in women just before the Price turn was were Selling at the highest prices since world War i and at almost double 1940 Price cuts have been announced by such High priced manufacturers As Miller Cangemi and Seymour Troy and by a num Ber of lower priced but they have not yet been made by a majority of the some manufacturers express fears that leather prices we Rise again during the leather Price reductions Fol Lowed Fofi break in ice hide Market last it that a better Supply and demand balance was being Wyoming uranium find fails to excite old timer body but one old timer in the red desert country seems to be about a uranium Ore Dis covery a Story Toldby a reliable source Here said the old timer has been using a poultice of water and the Yellowish pellets of to take the misery out of his Arm and shoulder for the treatment has been quite Accord ing to the at greater More food for workers better but since the rebirth of the co inform it was suggested that efforts should be made toward lesser production fostering greater disaffection among the communists methods Are Well they Are to get their smaller numbers in As Many key positions As possible the Trade Union in every owing to the apparent apathy of Normal British Trade Fife com have succeeded in getting their nominees appointed to the or Secretary ship of various local trades also in individual factories they had members or fellow travellers planted As shop stewards who took orders directly from the Headquarters of the communist everything is subordinated to the wishes of communist party this could Only bring miser to the common people of therefore it became obvious to me that the movement for which i fought and worked Solon was destroying those freedoms and decency is for which it claimed to be it became Clear that communism was incapable of providing care for an extremely sick events have shown that the new Liberty communist states has destroyed the old order and provides nothing Andres of National museum shows the world famed Kensington Stone to us Lotfe of the which apparently carries a message written by a Viking band in the near an exact duplicate has been made and will be sent to the place of tuberculosis vaccine okd by medical experts in knew York committee of medical experts has that the tuberculosis vaccine known As big is harmless and recommended that it be used report was made by the american Trudeau med Leal Branch of the National tuberculosis and was first official stand taken on big by a medical group in this thus named because it was by two French Scien calmette and has Long been used in Europe and some other parts Rotthe but until the last year had hot been regarded highly in the the Trudeau headed by Mcleod widely known for his work in tuber found that the prepared under Ideal a conditions administered to tuberculin negative persons Fay approved tech can be considered its report said on the basis studies reported in the european and american an appreciable reduction in the incidence of clinical pythons combat rats Malaya Are being replaced Here As rat a Mill owner claims the 25footlong snakes Are twice As wants Sleeper on the to has a standing of Selling Sleeper reservations Days in Advance of the tra the quota on the Munich train in berths for leave Thesyl eight berths Are void out As Soofi As the to puts them on ninety minutes before the Taraj leaves the to Sells Cancela there Are usually from five to to 10 of these which also sell hot the really puzzling thing ir5 that every time 1 ride the which is practically every there Are from 10 to berths available which the train after a considerable Todo about Sells on the train about half an hour after it Hai left the station How is that pos sible leave personnel Are treated like stepchildren by the Rios and have to take an awful lot psis if ing a leave quota of eight berths on a Friday nigh is comr Petely ridiculous and out of the number of personnel travelling on duty on Friday night must be so Small that there cannot be any justification for these editors note the Lucow chief of transportation has thit to say on the subject military trains have been established in the occupied 2one of Germany to take care of necessary to performance the occupation trains Are leased on a monthly basis established on the Scott Trot of duty travel being Twenty per cent of the space by the train is reserved for and 10 per cent for Oiel travel of sponsored business in View of the purpose of these 4 it is natural that Only proportion of the space available for leave space the distribution of space held until two hours before time at which time the train throw open on a first served some space Mains unsold until the train i due to last minute tons and some reserved Are held to take care of bad order equipment which might result far the removal Ofa Complete statistics show an equal Ntim Ber of duty personnel on weekends that on there it justification for making Speed at considerations on the leave at the an available sleepers in Many Are used on these and Are generally there Are considerable available but these Are generally ample space i Tiff available for leave Fra eel coaches at prac Focally All j and stripes tuberculosis May be anticipated when certain of people who Are Likely to develop tuberculosis because of unusual sex inferior or Are Why few women stutter new York woman speech mechanism is stronger than a says Martin pal speech correction sex 107 editor chief March 15 is to col William Summers executive editor k Joan Kelly managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports editor Jack is executive manager Maurice r Kirkwood chief of distribution Bernard Mcculgan news bureaus Frankfurt 2281322hm Vienna b471m Wiesbaden 76027590 4814 Heidelberg 53s45451 Bremerhaven 2228022202 Trieste 287i850921 Stuttgart Garmisch 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