European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse By Josephine Culbertson few Standard plays in Ridge Are More valuable than the Holdup play but like every other device it can be misused. That was the Case i today s Deal. South sides vulnerable 4963�k j9 5432 k 4 2a 731 q j 10 86 new � s. 4 j 10 t 3t 4aq5v q 10 4 4-a it a Northc East Pas the bidding bout Westing pass pass pass West made his natural Lead of the Diamond Queen and for reasons known Only to himself South " decided to Duck. West continued the suit and after winning South properly established the hearts knocking out the Ace. West who still had the Spade King for possible entry led still another Diamond and Declarer soon found that his Only Hance for the ninth trick was to win two Spades. The finesse let him Down however and the contract was gone this was most decidedly not a Case for the hold up play from the very Start South could count seven tricks outside of the Spade suit and it was therefore obvious that he would need two Spade tricks to round out the contracts. The finesse would give him a 50�/o Chance but if he took the first trick he would retain that Chance and at the same time leave himself with another excellent possibility observe How easy it would have been if South had won the first trick he would Knock out the heart Ace and then win the second Diamond trick also when. West persisted. Now. After Cash ing three heart tricks and two clubs it would be childishly simple to count West s original distribution As five diamonds four hearts one club and three Spades. South would simply throw West in with a Diamond let him win three tricks in that suit and then waft for the Spade return which West would have to make up to the . King features by Arthur no yes decision in Germany by Gen Lucius Dclay. Oul Edaj 522 pages $4.59. If in the years ahead the German people ate Able to overcome the outside threat of communism and conquer the Rhiner compulsion toward hyper nationalism and centralize autocratic government it will in great measure be due to me Wise leadership and counsel of Gen Lucius d. a Way to is historically fit Ting that an american Genera should have played such an important role in the establish ment of democratic Western Germany for to 1778, on the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin George Washington placed tiie training and re organization of the continent Larmy under the direction of a German general Friedrich Wil Helm von Steuben and the Ger Man s efforts contributed immeasurably to the establishment of a democratic United in Germany is an obviously self effacing but still personal account of the four fateful years in which Clayla bored first As Deputy military governor and then military governor of the . Occupation zone of Germany. Perhaps s greatest fault is Clay s reluctance to project More of himself into the text. Conversely Clay s personal reticence has Al Lowed voluminous coverage of the military government administration International conferences Security measures an political and economical reconstruction which were necessary to revive Germany and insure it will not be a threat to taken part in these events and discussions Cla writes in the introduction i have formed deep conviction Sand can write of my experiences Only with them in mind. I Donot claim to be dispassionate in my recording of these while to the minds of Many americans Clay Isth Man who turned Back Hie russian threat to Berli with the vast air lift Clay in his Book actually minimize this accomplishment in com Parison to me establishment Ofa democratic Western Germany or the Progress made in introducing Western Germany into the peaceful family of european nations. As to credit for the a lift Success he spreads i among the air Force army Navy civilian american Brit ish French and Clay begins his personal re port with his request to Gen Brehon b. Sommervell com manding general of tiie army service forces and the the assistant Secretary of War John j Mccloy to have his name withdrawn from a March 1945 appointment As Deputy military governor of the occupation zone to be available for combat duty in the Pacific. His request was ineffective and on March 31his appointment was announced. That Day he had an interview at the White House with presi Dent Roosevelt whose physical appearance shocked him. And began to select appointment As Deputy had not been made known i Advance to Gen Dwight d. Eisenhower who had requested Lay to be director of civil affairs g5a staff position quite different from reporting directly to the sheaf. Supreme commander. Another hitch in his appointment was the fact Gen Lucius d. Clay relaxes in his civilian attire in this photo graph taken As he was finishing work on his monumental Book. That he was not asked to conf Erwith any state department officials nor was he advised of department s relationship to military government at first Clay was placed i command of the . Group control Council the nucleus of the american delegation in the Allied control Council which was to govern Germany under a London agreement betwee the soviet Union Britain and the . Promoted to a lieu tenant general he also made Deputy chief of staff. Usset with the special response faulty of redeployment of troops to the Pacific. He first Learned of the German surrender when he was summoned to reims entered his office and saw an immaculately turned out general officer of the German army seated at his was Gen Alfred Jodl who had come to negotiate that Date Clay became actively concerned with the governing of the . Zone his Job began with a Germany i total defeat with no Central state or local governments. Clay s Job within army Security and government directives for the Defeated nation was to establish the be ginnings of order. In july 1945 he estimates Only 1,200 of the 12,000plants in the . Zone were in operation and Many school buildings had been destroyed or were occupied by . Troops or displaced persons. Only our press and radio were in operation. Hospitals everywhere were filled with wounded Ger Man soldiers. In looking Back he writes i think that if we had realized the confusion and chaos which existed we would indeed have thought ours a hopeless task. Certainly me authorities in Washington who had prepared our policy directive jcs/1067 did not visual ize these Between the russian and americans got off to a goo Start partially because of the Mutual respect shared by Gen Eisenhower and soviet marshal Grigori Zhukov. There was optimism at the time of the establishment of the Allied Council. Clay immediately concerned himself with re quests for authority to Al Low certain German industries to Start production for Export in order to Purchase food fora starving population. He also gained permission to . Food stuffs to the German Economy. When Gen Josepht. Mcnarney replaced Gen Eisenhower As military governor Clay requested that military government be divorced fro the european command and organized with its own staff mostly civilians but responsible to the military governor Mcnar Ney did not feel it was yet time for the move which did not take place until March 1947, when Clay became military governor and a full general. He then established the office of Mili tary government United states Omegus. From the beginning he reports it was his aim to establish conditions so that mugs could be turned Over to civilian in Germany records the Steps taken to develop government at the Village and county Levels and the gradual process of extending democracy upward to state elections. Clayhan the highest Praise for such German Poh Titiana As Hans Hohard Josef Mueller an Konrad Adenauer of the cd and a stand Wilhelm Kaiser. Chr Iuan Stock and Waldemar von Kiyoe Ringen of a so Speaks highly of such Ftp leaders a Theodor Heuss and Reinhold Maier of the communist partying the . Zone he states its leaders were party he found Alfred Loritz of the eco nomic reconstruction party a colourful Leader who alternates Between palaces and jails but keeps his party in the limelight Clay records his part inthe London and Moscow conferences and the control Council debates which evidenced the breakdown in .-russian relations. After the London conference in no vember 1947, he writes we Al knew the control Council was from this knowledge of the hopelessness of four Power Rule of Germany developed the program of economic fusion of the British and . Zones Cla reports that then Secretary of state James f Byrnes and his political adviser. Ambassador Robert d. Murphy believed lha soviet Union did not intend to treat Germany As an economic unit and hoped to delay any economic Progress causing unrest which is the Only seed for communist development the Book traces the reconstruction which followed eco nomic fusion and the Eventa leading to currency Reform Cla refuses to accept the argument that currency Reform played any part in causing the russians to impose the Berlin the Book discusses he army. Phase of the occupation which was Clay s second responsibility. He singles out. Lutgen Clarence r. Huebner. It Gen Geoffrey Keyes and it Gen Curtis Lemay As outstanding in their army and air fore responsibilities and adds that it Gen Kenneth Cannon who succeeded Lemay was equally of the occupation Soldier he writes Young though our soldiers May be they Are per forming their duties he terms an excellent comment on the Star and stripes is a terse stars and stripes he writes publishes factual world and local he credits the Marshall plan with saving the free nations of Europe but admits msgr Ingras to some aspects of the pro these misgivings Cente about the Erp being used to bring about Complete economic planning in opposition to the open Market and thus destroying advantages of free Enterprise of his successor in Ger Many. Clay says i Learned to like and Admire John Mccloy when he was assistant Secretary of the army and know him to be Well informed on German matters and under standing of their import to Europe As a whole. American responsibility in Germany is in competent Clay looks to the eventual inclusion of Western Germany in the Council of Europe. Sixty five million people he writes cannot be separated Over the years against their the people of Germany Are industrious and Able to contribute to the Well being of Europe the Yare enjoying freedoms now which they have not possessed in Many years. Their under standing of democracy will grounder democratic procedures if they Are helped by those who know and love decision in Germany by Gen Lucius d. Clay now on Sale at your stars and stripes bookshops feature Section
