European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol in no. 11 weekend the Magazine of the stars and stripes april 10, 1948 i editor Dick Jones associate editors Sterling lord John Sharnik Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production Chic Steven r. J. Lakos assistant editors Daniel Farson Ralph l. Harwood John h. Powers Dorothy n. S. Russell Grace Schmidt chief photographers Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro contributing editor Germany William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies. Arthur Noyes Julia Edwards. Joseph Fleming. Werner prym win fanning. Austria Ernie Reed. France Eugene Levin Morton Gudebrod. Italy. Betty  York William Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in chief articles fighting yank in Kashmir. By Russell k. Height .5 Finland on the russian Hook. By Judy Harden 9. A Marshall plan for the ladies. By May Geyer 1 5 special feature Liege Belgium. By Dan Regan and Ralph l. Harwood 11 serial terror House. Part in of an eight part mystery by Rob Eden .16 sports la Boxe. 7 picture stories Astor Centennial 2 College boy. ".  4 fingerprinting. 10 Ballet Berlin. .-.17paris. I. 18 features crossword. By chaises Erlenkotter 23 sad sack. George Baker s cartoon 23 departments 9 \ \ letters to the editor. 3 Over the weekend. ,. A column by the. Editors 3 those United states setbacks in the Rio Grande. By Harvey Scandrett 4 books. Notes and reviews 16 j movie review to men. U. S. Zone release 20 movie guide. Films now. Showing 21 reporter in route a disc jockey in Lapland. By Ned Nordness 22 Over the weekend for three and a half months during the War from january to april 1945-the stars and stripes published an edition in Liege Belgium for the men in the first and ninth army lines. Through the stripes Liege office passed an almost continuous traffic of correspondents moving Between the fronts or Between Paris and the War. Ralph har Wood and Dan Regan co authors of weekend s report on postwar Liege Page 11were among them. Har Wood recalls that he like most other stripes correspondents found inc Liege edition attractive chiefly As a place you could always be sure of getting a Bath by no Means a negligible Quality in those Days. Harwood also recalls though that the Baths were probably the most expensive he has Ever taken for the. After deadline poker table of the stars an stripes Crew was set up nightly right in front of the bathroom door so that it was virtually impossible Roget to the tub without playing a hand or two in route. Harwood says that sometimes he did t get around to the Bath at All but that he never came away from Liege without having been pretty thoroughly cleaned. A disc jockey in Lapland by Ned Nordness Page 22was reported from the Scandinavia Bureau of the International news service. Harvey Scandrett author of this week s report on those United states setbacks in the Rio Grande Page 4is with the associated press in Laredo Texas. Mary Geyer see Page 15, a Marshall plan for the ladies is the pseudonym of an american dependent  principle we Are opposed to authors signing fake names to their stuff. We figure that a writer like a candidate for Congress ought to be ready to stand visibly beside his own words instead of taking cover behind some meaningless slogan. In this Case however we were swayed by a certain sense of gallantry a healthy male impulse to protect a lady from her own honesty. We weighed the combustion possibilities of what miss or should we say mrs Geyer had to say and decided that pre cautions ought to be taken in Case of any incidents such As we had last summer when one of our readers threatened the Book editor with Jorse whipping for passing on some writer s unfavourable views on Texas. We not Only agreed to the use of a pseudonym we insisted on it. Even the most implacable Reader of miss Geyer s remarks on the hideous faults of american men and the Virtues of their european contemporaries will appreciate our motives not that it did t take a Good Deal of pretending that our feelings weren t Hurt by the lady s com ments. They were. But now that the Kinsey report has bared the male sex life to the Public we figured the Jig was up anyway and there was no longer any Point in putting up a fight. Weekend s cover shows two of Germany s most promising Ballet dancers As they appear in the Ber Lin production of Romeo and Juliet Berli Ballet a Page 17. Natascha Trofimova who plays Juliet and Gert Reinholm have been dancing to Gether since they were discovered in 1945 As eighteen year Olds. Cover picture is by Werne Borchmann a retired dancer himself. Letters to tie czech defender sir in reference to Grace Schmidt Sar Ticle Pilsen after dark March 27 j though outwardly miss Schmidt spoke favourably of the czech people i thought i detected a note of sarcasm in he article. Specifically that she believes the czech people or a majority of them were in favor of the communist coup in their country. Whether or not misconstrued the meaning of her state ments i would like to bring out the Fol lowing Points. Firstly the czechoslovak people except for the Swiss Are probably the most democratic thinking people i Europe. Her Friendly relations with the United states great Britain and other democratic nations of the world is and has been a known fact throughout czech history As far As the communist coup is concerned the u. S. Could shave done Ore to avoid that than any other country by making sure that Russia troops left the country in compliance with the agreement Between the u.s.,czech, and soviet governments. It is a known fact to me that when the Amer ican gis left the country on november 30, 1945 the russians who were to Dothe same moved beyond the Rock Zany Roadblock which prior to that time waste makeshift Border Between the rus Sian and us. Occupied territories of Czechoslovakia. I personally witnessed this on a later visit to Czechoslovakia i december 1945. In Short the russians had literally Over run the country friends of mine living in Pilsen expressed their fears to me at the time of a definite communistic move in the near future but the people were  opinion at that time was and i be Lieve still is that the United states had deserted the last bastion of democracy in Central Europe. What i would like to know is Why weren t these facts reported to the at Tention of Washington by our ambassador in Czechoslovakia and if they were Why did t the u. S. Protest to Russia for miss Schmidt s information the soldiers she saw being saluted in Pilsen were not All lieutenants. The fact  in the czech army As m Many other european armies non commissioned As Well As commissioned officers Are saluted by soldiers of lesser rank. John Cannizzo Munich America first sir i think the Crail sheim Relief project taken Over by Worthington Minnesota As described in the March 27 Issue of weekend adopted Village shows a very Fine Christian spirit and attitude on the part of the Good citizens of Worthington. However i can t seem to forget the Many impoverished people in Usa who also need help of this same Type. Natu rally a project on the part of an Amer ican town helping its own country is Avery Dull one utterly lacking in the Glamor and publicity which accompanies the Aid Given a foreign town and its  All Charity begins at Home. When your own Back Yard is clean Dup then it s a very Fine idea to strike out a Little Way from Home and help the Guy on the other Side of the world. George Farrell Wiesbaden likes Long Day sir. Allow me to congratulate you on the excellent Story in your March 27 Issue Long Day in Damascus by franc Schase or. I think this Story is the Best you be Ever published both for the liter Ary value and the Story itself. I Hope or. Chase will write Moi stories for weekend in the future. Marion Higley Berlin