European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                14 weekend May 1, -1948 the Magazine of the stars and stripes Dick Jones associate editors Sterling lord John Sharnik Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval / production chief.  r. J. Lakos � assistant editor Daniel Parson Ralph i Harwood John h. Powers Dorothy n. A a Tussell  Arthur m. Brandel Alwyn George f chief photographers Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro. /. Contributing editors. R William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies Arthur Noyes. Julia Edwards. Joseph Fleming. Werner . Austria Ernie Reed. France Eugene Levin. Italy Betty. Luros. New York William Stuyvesant Vul lieutenant colonel William a Summers editor in chief  holds Vizonia s purse strings. By Dorothy Gies 5 where to find that pot of Gold by soul Pett 10 Ecial feature the Riviera. By John shot rink 11 Hal. V terror House picture stories letters to the. Part Vii of an eight part mystery by Rob Eden 16 belgian Pitchman airborne zoo. Sewers of Paris big wheelin Vienna 2. 4 6 22 its baseball is Back. I 8 lures the dec life Kino. A. By Bill tinker crossword. A. By Charles Erlenkotter sad sack. ". Geprge Baker s. Cartoon 18 23 23, departments letters to the editor to. Over the weekend. A column by the editors those United states malted in the Mezzanine. By Aline Mosby reporter in route Carinthia is Tito s fancy by g. C. Oliver books   Notes and reviews movie review High Wall. A /. . Zen release movie guide -.,. Films now showing. I17"17 i ,20 21 Over the weekend some reason brother the sewers of Paris to have a Peculiar attraction for outlying Mem of the weekend staff and it s Given us a lot Oft ble. We first became aware of this strange Fixa Jabout a year ago when one of our Cor in dents cabled us that he had come across Story in the sewers and did we want it severed the message presumably sent from a Point Coly below the Paris office of Western Union a breathless affirmative and then hunched for Tensed Over our typewriters to await the re weeks passed without response and fearing at t or Man had either wound up in a pulverizing out in the suburbs or that he had Given up Lalim to join a band of outlaw ego tiers Wea one Man Rescue team out or Down a after it was several Days before we heard from Ouri and then it was Only to remark that he had into a slight Cross current somewhere Between Avenue de 1 opera and place Pialle and might delayed with his Story. Up to that Point we were aware that he had any Mission in mind out to Livingston hut we figured we might As Welli practical and told him to go ahead with his plans y. After this the first Man turned up suddenly of Ungstad explaining that he had somehow got iced up with a manhole Crew from the municipality and Power works and could he go Down and Rit again. By this time we were beginning Torry about the second Man and so we brushed him with an evasive answer. When a free Lance biographer on his Way to Paris stopped by in office to try to sell us on the idea of a Story on sewers we told him we weren t interested be a it was too dark Down there for pictures any a. The second Man meanwhile reported that Het gradually working his Way up the champs Ely in a Flat boat and could we use 3000 words never bothered to answer the Cable and for All know he s still Down there doing the town in i Odd mole like fashion he seems to  eased up until just recently a Batch of Oto graphs on the sewers came to us without warn from Joe Pazen a photographer whose work appeared in these pages on several previous sons. Figuring to get the whole subterranean. Mess Over with in a hurry we rushed Pazen s photos into print see Page 6. Sure enough just a Day or two ago while this week s Issue was still on the presses a wire came in from our Paris correspond ent a new Man free we d hoped of this strange disputes czech defender sir. Permit me to comment upon the letter by czech. Defender John can Nizzo in your Issue of april 10.that the czechs Are probably the most democratic thinking people in Europe is largely a myth carefully nursed by czech propaganda betwee the two world wars. In fact however during that period Czechoslovakia was ruled by the Petka or committee of  it was composed of the chairmen of the largest czech parties. They decided in secret sessions the policies Tobe adopted the senators and representatives bound by strict discipline simply confirmed in open sessions in Parlia ment what their leaders had previously decided upon. You can hardly Call that True democracy. Another example is and was the treatment of minorities which always is a Good yardstick for judging a people. Though the czechs numbered only50.53% of the total population they used their majority of one half percent to treat the slovaks the sudeten the hungarians arid the poles As second class citizens thus thoroughly alienating All of  the expulsion of the us deters and hungarians in 1945 and 1946the czechs committed atrocities com parable to nazi cruelties As stated by Anne o Hare Mccormick in the new York times. The consent Given to the expulsions at  a smart move on the part of the russians since. Thus czech fear of retaliation makes them forever dependent on the . On the part of the United states and great Britain it was a betrayal of the principles for which we had fought the War. For having deserted the cause of Justice and. Human rights the czechs now pay the Price. To blame the rus Sian troops As Well meaning or Cari Nizzo does is. Unfair. In an. Election which was confirmed by Western of a servers to have been free the czechs voted voluntarily 38% communist handmade the Moscow controlled group the _ largest single party in the country that Czechoslovakia today is in the soviet orbit is a direct outgrowth of the unfortunate Benes Masaryk policy which started Back in 1943, with a visit to Moscow. The course of events was Plain for everybody to see after the communists had taken Over in Romania Bulgaria Poland and Hungary. The1 czechs did not lift a Finger to keep their Freedom just As they had not Fireda single shot even in Token resistance when the nazis seized first the sudeten land and then the rest of Bohemia and Moravia. After All the Price of Liberty is eternal  j .h.f. , / underground urge. How about a Story on the sewers of Paris he wanted to know we cabled him Back to keep the hell upstairs. A  a threat or possibly a treat inshore for movie patrons in those United states Page 4 is contributed by Aline Mosby United press con respondent in Holly Wood. For those who have tired of trying to make piles of Money the slow Way but who still prefer to keep within the Law Saul Pett of the associated press Bureau in Newyork Points out a number of Likely spots where to. Find that pot of Gold Page 10 where with a Little digging or diving and plenty of Luck fortunes May be found. Weekend s cover shows 21-year-old Jeanne Blum catching the Early summer Sun on one of the sunny beaches of Southern France. Jeanne and he friends Are part of the thousands of worshippers of the Sun and the Gay life who flock to the Riviera annually. Story of life on France s Mediterranean coast the Riviera is of Page 11. Cover photo graph by weekend s Michael Vaccaro. T a elevated Reader sir. " v " since when does a Man elevate himself when he Sheds the insignia of a commissioned officer in the u. ?,-i am referring to the last Para graph of the article Over the week tend in the Issue of 17 april i was fortunate enough to have held a commission in the u. S. Air Force and i do not feel that i was elevated when i was released from the service., in my opinion the statement referred to was in very bad taste and i feel Haikou should tender an apology to the commissioned officers in the