European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and strikes september ifs Maneu vers in Europe go Back to exercise Normal in 1948 the transformation of armed forces in Europe from occupation to tactical Security units can be traced from september 1948 when the first Large scale troop exercise were held at since that time exercises of increasing difficulty and scope Tave been held regularly by unite the most intensive operation yet planned is exer Cise Rainbow now under while the increase in troop activities can not help but reflect East West a Nevers actually Are a routine practice of All exercise Normal under the command of it Gen Clarence r then Deputy Neucom chief included both and Brit the purpose of the Maneu vers was to determine How successfully a mythical enemy could be prevented from sweep ing Westward through Tyve Ameri can a few months later in january dec troops completed successful defense of the Rhine River in Maneu vers known As myth seen on crimes a myth about the Nurnberg trials detrimental to pol icy in Germany has been brought about by the fact that the 12 turn Toerag judgments which followed the International military Tribu Nal decisions have never been printed in the German according to Robert Kemp former Deputy chief of counsel at the in a pamphlet reprinted from the Atner ican political science Kempner slates that not Only is policy injured by the Lack of German language Tran scripts of the 12 but general German Public is thus completely ignorant of their historical an political the detrimental effect of the failure to publish the court Deci in German the augmented by the fact that German nationalistic circles provided publications of Whitewash material suppressing incriminating evidence or distorting Kempner the titled review the Nurnberg trials As sources of recent German political and historical lists most of the material available in Many languages to students and scholars engaged in research on the Nurnberg mental weapons urged for peace by science service state weapon to prevent War is psychological Gustav chief psychologist of the veterans administration hos Pital at told the meeting Here of the american psychological the russian people do not want he show them that they Are not threatened by the and they win have no sympathy with a he he based his statements on his study of dictators As psychologist at the Nurnberg the should Send shortwave radio sets into territory behind the Iron Gilbert because so far at those behind the Iron curtain Are the is the aggressor until they learn just How this is to be accomplished is a problem of but it should be worked Gilbert operation although recalcitrant weather actually changed the name of the exercise to operation the Snowdrop operation developed in three phases embracing 144 hours of continuous both 1st div and constabulary troops were seventy thousand Neucom troops took the Field in mid april in exercise showers with High ranking observers of the Atlantic pact nations watching the striking Power of air and naval who acted As director of the said it was designed to give each unit the Chance to perform operations in the Field and to give us a Chance to look at it and see How Well it the general meant just what he said As service As Well a combat troops were required to function under Field a joint operations Center was established at Nurnberg to co ordinate Fairground action while Armor and infantry operations were coordinated both in of and the military problem for the Maneu vers was that aggressor lying in an Easterly direct had become increasingly hos numerous Border Crossings and Crossings by Small unorganized groups of aggressors had taken since aggressor lines had been reinforced by troops from the Interior including a mechanized division and an infantry the army established a defensive position along the Lud wig canal and placed a counter reconnaissance screen along the line of the Hof Regensburg rail Day plus one saw the aggressors Cross the Border and move West the constabulary fought a delaying action until Day plus three and was forced to failed to exhibit the strength predicted and the started a series of with Gen Thomas Neucom As an interested operation Harvest was launched in september 1s49 with More than officers and men participating in the joint army air Force Navy also participating were French troops from the famed 5th battalion Dee French american relations were briefly strained at the Start of the exercise when the French Liaison officer reported that a truck carrying his battalions Supply of wine was missing would the maps kindly get it Back he they much of the Harvest action took place in the Frankfurt turn Bergmunch in contrast to previous no mythical or paper opposing Force was actual aggressor forces were most of them drawn from the the exercise produced a High competitive spirit among troops of the constabulary and the 1st but although encouraging the emphasized no one wins a january of this year saw an other Winter exercise where 1st div troops were placed in defensive positions be Berlin Freedom Bell to counteract propaganda of communists by Bob Considine new York passing remember the Morse code Sig Nal for boomed through the lands Hitler overran and was the sustenance on which resist Ance forces thrived the Dodot Dodash that meant v for Victory sounded across Europe through the facilities of bbl and shortwave stations around the perimeter of German if was the voice of of of determine the Walls of German command posts from the outskirts of mos cow to the Channel and the tip of Italy became littered with scrawled by courageous patriots at the risk of their Winston Church ills Sig with his Index and Middle became vivid even in the darkest Days of the that the right Side would now there is to be a signal for the cold the Symbol will be a a Freedom Bell to be Hung in City so few years was the target of the v the purpose of the Bell Symbol is to counteract communist propaganda against the and the remaining no communist coun the hounded anticommunist movements behind the Iron curtain will go Back to their Wall this time using the Walls of their russian or russian trained new and this time drawing a the main Beu cast at a pact Unity bar to War Washington William com Mander of the Atlantic said cooperation among Atlantic pact nations will discourage Daggres and Avert speaking to the North Atlantic regional planning was quoted on defense a 15 minute weekly broadcast on armed forces information sponsored by the defense department the Security of our individually end collectively and the Assurance of peace in the Fechteler was quoted As require that our planning be continuous that our combined de lenses be improved let by our make of this meeting a warning to any nation harbouring expansionist intentions that the forces of human Freedom Ere alerted and cannot be by nor by actual from perform Price ceilings on wives sought by sheiks Haifa sheiks want the israeli government to Clamp Price controls on the Pur Chase of moslem wives because of runaway the request was made to israeli minister of rabbi at a meeting at the sheiks complained that Many Young moslem could not afford to marry because prices for wives have jumped from around j400 to ing their primary which is the defense of by continuing to work together in the spirit of United self interest which brought about the North Atlantic we will discourage aggression and Avert War and should War be forced upon our combined might will As sure the Victory and the Freedom of our years 1945 Ford motor lays off workers As protest against unauthorized strikes against companies supplying it with 1946 president Truman backs Secre tary of state James Byrnes in fight Over foreign policy speech of Henry 1947 increased buyer resistance is reported from All parts of the in protest against rising food 1948 Britain announces that she de laying stepping up refurbishing her civilian defense and doubling her output of fighter 1949 Konrad Adenauer is nominated by president Theodor Heuss As Chancellor of the West German foundry in c r o y d o bears the inscription that this under shall have a new birth of Para phrased from lincolns remarks at it is of weighs 10 tons and was designed by Walter Dorwin the first sound from the when installed in will be carried by radio throughout the Bells will ring out All Over America Church City Hall school Bells the Bells of Western Europe will Ciao chairman the nationa1 committee for a free of which Gen Lucius Clay is is sponsoring this crusade for Freedom which has chosen the Bell As its rallying Point its div dual headed by a Council of dozens of Well known will be the people of this whom contributions will be president tru Man has called it a great in Clay sees the whole program As a Means of stepping up our Campaign of truth to blast this false propaganda to demonstrate be fore the world our True Aims of Freedom anr1 Friendship for All and to bring a Mes Sage of sympathy and encourage ment to millions of oppressed Peoples under the Heel of communism funds raised under the stimulation of the Beu 1 go to expand facilities of radio free that Little and tremendously hard hitting network of five stations which throws Only bras knuckled broadcasts Over the Pond the was of the Berg Stinsm and the forested areas of Northern the constabulary produced biggest Winter Maneu vers in Early March when exercise Dragoon was launched by the 2d constabulary Brig in by the end of March Neucom troops had completed exercise termed by it Gen John Safe the largest command Post exercise Ever conducted in the which was commanded by ended with troops on the defensive All along the 250mile Rhine River front the exercise showed Excel Lent Fairground according to a critique by the top who also stated their pleasure with the ease in which the 1st div and the constabulary were integrated into powerful task Many units have also held smaller but vital exercises during the last three among them have been Santa Parka and rays set for London entire popu lation of a Welsh Coal mining Valley is going to be prayed 0oon to see if science can then tuberculosis in the Dusty mining the medical research financed by the announced it will Start its wholesale praying among the people in the Rhondda Fach Little Rhondda Valley in South Wales in a local advisory committee South Wales doctors will super Vise the if All cases of tuberculosis in a Community could be discovered and or isolated so that they were no longer spreading tuberculosis this be no cases of tuberculosis would the committee world Oil Reserve found dwindling England a British fuel expert says the worlds Petroleum Reserve is Down to about a 50year Supply at present production Alexander Parker even with resources which will almost certainly be Dis it will probably be difficult to meet world Parker said the Outlook for Coal and Lignite was much he estimated both the and Russia have reserves of Fossil fuels to last at least Britain reserves can be mined economically for Only 200 to 300 years he the stars and stripes g us editor Nachlel managing editor sports editor september 14 col Henry it Cater Ken Zumwalt Phil Taylor executive manager chief of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Louis Brown news bureaus ext 67 Darmstadt 190 Berlin 816681 8466bb Vienna the european edition is published daily at for the occupation under the auspices of the armed forces information and education Neucom Frankfurt the stars and Darmstadt correspondence should be addressed to the stars and stripes Apo 17s u s mail to the new York office Souid be sent to my Washington this is not an official publication of the armed reentered As second class matter sept 1947 at the Post office at new under the act of March