European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. Or no. 20 june 12, 1s43 the Magazine of the stars and strikes editor Dick Jones associate l editors Sterling lord Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven r. J. Lakos assistant editor Daniel Farson Ralph l. Harwood John w. Powers Borothy n. S. Russell Grace Schmidt Maggi Claughton Arthur m. Brandel Irene h. Ulmer chief photographers Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro. Contributing editors Germany William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies Arthur Noyes Julia Edwards Joseph Fleming. Werner prym. Win fanning. France Gene Levin , John Sharnik. Italy Betty Luros. U. S. A William. Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in chief articles 5 10 16 Vizonia s reds toe the party line. A weekend report i Island in Paris. 1.by win fanning serial trouble in Nevada. Part in of an eight part mystery by Jean Sullivan picture stories fruit sculptor. 2 Simian Starlet. ,. 4 Dps in route to Palestine. ,. 8 a Day vets Bull session. ,.- 18 sports Cologne s new Speedway 6 summer olympics a London gets ready 12 Britain s Best a. A. ,13 u. S. Jumpers. 14 features crossword. By Charles Erlenkotter sad sack. George Baker s cartoon departments letters to the editor. Over the weekend a column by the editors those United states room at the inn. By Wayne Oliver books notes and reviews reporter in route Zanzibar ran easter Ham off the african coast. By James Powers movie review big City. U. S. Zone release movie guide .7.?.,. Films now showing Over the weekend 23 23 3 3. 4 19 19 20 21 not so Long ago Robert Capa a photographer of some note whose work you May have seen from time to time in these pages turned his hand to writing and produced a Book slightly out of focus which gained him a considerable amount of repute and a not inconsiderable amount of Lucre. It was perhaps with the  of going Capa one Bette that one of weekend s writers Dan Farson last Winter armed himself with a Rolle flex Complete with a full set of those gadgets and attachments photographers seem to think they need  needed to make himself unpopular by taking Pic Tures of everyone an everything that " stuck Heads into weekend s offices. This sort of thing had happened several times before but in each instance the writer creditor Scon thought better of the whole business an usually traded his camera for some new Gadget liken electric Organ or a stuffed Hawk. Farson however refused to be discouraged by snide re photo by Farson Marks and general Lack  on the part of picture editors. All this was brought to a rather abrupt halt last Spring when Parson was rather badly banged up in an automobile Accident near Stuttgart while in the Hospital he had time to Brood about such problems As composition Lens openings shutter and film speeds and All those other incomprehensible things photographers always talk about. He also had time to assemble what is perhaps the world s largest collection of self portraits one of which is reproduced above. When he was release from the Hospital a few weeks ago Farson began a concerted Campaign to get a picture Story assign ment and was finally allowed to go to Cologne for the memorial Day Auto races. The results Cologne Snew Speedway Are printed on pages 6 and 7. Encouraged Farson has ordered a rubber stamp bearing the legend photograph by Daniel Farson and has been laying siege to the picture editors for another assignment. Meanwhile he denies any immediate plans for putting out a Book but we Havethe title All ready slightly out of  s photographic accomplice in Cologne Snew Speedway edouard Renner brought Back along with photographs of the racing itself a picture which both he and Farson think should have gone on weekend s cover this week. They weren t a Leto convince anyone of the picture s Merit but they Haven t Given up yet. It s a picture of a Bird s nest. Weekend s report of what goes with Germany Western zones communists. Vizonia s reds toe the party line Page 5is the product of the machine age or Assembly line technique of journalism. On the theory that ten people can be ten place sat the same time we assigned everyone who could be spared to the Job of digging into the Comrade present activities. Julia Edwards covered the bavarian Angle win fanning took care of Wurt Temberg Baden. In Berlin Mildred Murphy Joe Fleming and Ralph Harwood got the Over All Pic Ture. Operating out of Bremerhaven William b. Lee covered the Northern part of the British  prym and Art Brandel went to the. Ruhr and then returned to cover Hesse and the new Izonia Headquarters in Frankfurt. The mass1 of material accumulated by these reporters something Over 100,000 words was organized boiled Down and distilled by the office staff aided and in a Large part directed by Art Brandel. 9ur reporter in. Route this week James Powers presents on Page 19 a dispatch on the state of affairs in Zanzibar just about As unlikely a Placeas we can think of. The Only explanation that comes to mind is that Powers works for International news service whose employees keep turning up in places As unlikely As say Zanzibar. A couple of oceans away and from a less unlikely place new York Wayne Oliver of associated press looks into the. Hotel business those United states Page 4 and reports that the Boom is Over. The czechs continued sir weekend published a letter May 1 of h. F. March which concerned the czechoslovak democracy or rather the Lack of democracy. I would like to reply to this letter in spite of the fact Shatas a czechoslovak refugee i am not Al Lowed to develop any political activity on the territory occupied by the u. S. Army. My answer therefore is merely an explanation of a few historical facts. I do not deny the correctness of the statement about cruelties committed in 1945 and 1946 by some communist groups and by the communist police in handling German hungarian and tothe same extent czechoslovak prisoners March certainly was entitle to express his disapproval of these and the same feeling is shared by All decent czechoslovak. It is though incorrect to judge a people by the deeds of group of a few individuals. March writes that Between the two world wars Czechoslovakia was governed by a committee of five i.e., bythe chairmen of the five largest political parties. March finds that this situation contradicts True democracy. Can it be considered undemocratic if the Fate of nation is decided by elected representatives of a majority of electors these men reached their position solely by gaining the majority in a free an secret vote. As far As the approval of their motions  by. The parliament is considered in even the most democratic countries the deputies of the various parties agree with the program of their own  minorities. The slovaks did not form a minority in the Republic but were a part of the Czecho slovak nation. Regarding the treatment of minorities hungarians poles sudeten. They were permitted to forepart of the staff of the government services of their areas and their promo Tion was by no Means limited had the same rights and duties As the czechs were entitled to All political activity the sudeten German party was at onetime the largest party in the Republic and had representatives and deputies in the government. Thus these representatives had an. Opportunity to decide measures taken to suppress  the extreme left and the extreme right had followers midst the Minori ties. Czech police often defended Mem Bers of the sudeten German party from aggressors of the German minority party s own left , March says that 38 per cent of the czechs voted Commu-nist, creating the situation of a nation subdued to the . Does Marc consider 38 out of a Hundred a majority observers have declared these elections to have been free however have these observers been Given the Hance of interviewing people compelled to vote for the communists under the threat of losing their jobs and Homes in Prague alone several thousands were summoned to the court of the people during the Las few Days preceding the elections thus facilitating the exclusion of a consider Able number of anti communists. As a matter of fact under the  the liberation of the country by the. Russian army the communists had already deliberately taken hold of the key positions in Public affairs Czechoslovakia did not lift a  to keep its Freedom declares March. Proof was Given by witness Sand documents in the Security Council of the in that president Benes was threatened by a red army occupation of Czechoslovakia had the intended communist Putsch failed. The last reproach of a Lack of Active resistance against the German occupation in 1939 is not  is sufficient to mention the executed traitors partisans and the Many czechoslovak soldiers who sacrificed to Weir lives As members of the Allied forces. Dalimil Vesely Niernberg