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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, October 9, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes october Ikas air games defense fails 8 least persons were declared dead and Al nost Home Jess today after bombers razed Rene British cities in mock is by stains bomber command threw its heaviest four engined punches s the country throughout yesler Dav and this and defense chiefs still Wen reeling tonight under what would have been a tremendous disaster if the raids had been Paris of London were assumed to let a Large areas pulverised by atomic and old Ash toned Coventry was in ruins and the Industrial mid lands badly crippled under blitzes spearheaded by the Raf total defense of the which would Seal it against a single enemy was far from perfect German based British Jet fight streaked Over Britain at Iret playing the role of enemy Jet bombers carrying atomic dogfights in rain the fastest interceptors the de sense could Muster leapt into rain Todden skies engaged the invading bombers in the most important engagement of the exer air conscious of the users three types of Jet bombers that May be capable of dropping a carefully studied results of dogfights and credited the de fenders with a Large number of in bomber experts real bombers with their thicker wings might have been Able to Oulman never the smaller fighters in the thin air above British defense critical of recent european air Maneu vers which Permil fed mock atom carry ing planes to blast Paris and the major Industrial centers of Western mounted this autumn exer Cise to test i Teir own they massed hundreds of bombers and the crack fighter pilots of six including the on British then they ordered the with holds reds violate Graves in search for scrap 8 West Berlin newspaper reported that the soviet zone drive to collect scrap has extended to family cof Der Abend said that officials in Jive East German cities had been ordered to gather up Metal coffins from municipal replacing them with wooden the East German communist government repeatedly has complained that a shortage of scrap Metal is hampering its industrialization Brace Way to ambassador to arrived Here today in route to Washington for Consulta re aspects to stay in the two left homeless by red invasion a crying South korean boy holds ont his arms for help amid the ruins of what was his Home in the youngster was found and eared for by american troops after the fall of the Mcloy bids germans share West Burden for Security continued from Page i with other Western nations unwanted and costly burdens As the Price of Freedom and Protection from the direct threat by tace communists against the people and institutions of Western Germany and his remarks were in answer to growing criticism from German sources of Western which Mccoy for incorporating German units into a West european and rising com plaints against the costs to German taxpayers of stabs zoning More British and French troops Here to guarantee West Germany external Broad support needed Mccoy outlined the Steps taken by the foreign conference in new York toward restoring Germany to the he also discussed burdens undertaken by Community of the the Western Powers to strengthen european including that of in the process of creating a uni fied army for the defense of he the question of a possible German defense contribution was bound to the Western allies fully he that a German contribution is possible or desirable Only if the the parliament and the government of the Federal Republic Western Germany actively favor and support it in some he it has been suggested that our recent actions Are prompted by the desire to buy German military help in a time of in All Stuttgart frequency shift oct8 an Stuttgart will shift frequencies at 6 am tuesday from 1061 pc to 1106 an announced dec Hiles on visitors listed 8 individuals invited to visit occupation personnel in Germany must arrange for return transportation before thirty leave their Homes ont Side of they will not be to remain in the zone moire than 60 under a recent amendment to Yucom circular sponsors of visitors will notify the Post com Mander the Date the visitor arrived in the Date he will de and the Type of return transportation in his Post commanders Are directed to establish such other controls As they think necessary to insure that guests of occupation personnel do not re main in Germany More than the 60 Days sponsors applying for visitors permits must certify i the application that visitor willbe in formed that his return transportation must be arranged prior to his departure from i urge the German people not to be misled by such the fact is that the United stat and the Western nations Are not bargain ing for German and they do not intend to do we Are neither nor Are we coercing the decisions he Are not a departure from previous Allied policy in but rather the latest Steps toward a goal that has been constant since 1945 to help Germany be come a constructive partner in the democratic european that Mccoy was greatly furthered in the new York decisions by which the authority of tiie Federal Republic is being substantially increased and the Security of the Federal Republic is being greatly the actions of the he were prompted by a profound de sire to preserve individual Liberty and human dignity from All forms of and to maintain unless i am badly Western germans and indeed All germans share this yearning for Freedom and recalls Aid by West these Are Noble but they can be attained Only by sacrifice those who really want them must pay that the i has shown it is willing to do for Freedom and peace can be won Only with Effort and All who share the Faith in a free society must seek common ground for their Protection and must Bear unwanted and costly he reminded German critics of Western Allied policy that five years Germany was in social and economic ruin that ruin was it must be not by Yalta and but directly by the callous brutality of nazi aggression compared with five years West Ern Germany has made phenomenal As each of you this recovery could not have been started without the Western he said americans Are convinced that a Strong West can prevent another the he can face the future with its strength lies not Only in its greater re sources and Industrial but in the Faith of free Peoples whose energies Are not sapped by constant the same Faith can Speed the Day when Germany will become United in democratic a Childs by Jimmy Cannon new York Post War reprinted by permission of new York copyright York Post with marines at the Trees the wounded in the the utters against the Curbstone of the torn up Street they were quiet with lying on their backs they seemed imprisoned in agonized contemplation of the glaring Mortan brought them and their wounds were riflemen used the Fence along the Street As a they ignored the kneeling with their backs to As they fired into the House where the snipers they ducked into the holes when mortars fell onto the roofs of buildings in the partially razed the sounds of High velocity shells going Over tightened them into positions of sudden Small arms fire was but that wounded were beyond All they unprotected and tended by tact waiting for the medical jeeps to take them the last one they brought in was a they put int Down carefully and he raised up on his there want much left of his left foot and he bit on the cig Aret which had gone dead in his wheres my helmet the sergeant asked in a desperate a tall fat corpsman baby All i want my the sergeant his voice was very you dont need it any the corpsman Weri taking you he pressed the sergeant Down on the another sergeant sitting against the Fence saw the Guy on the his face was freckled with Small bloody his left hand was wrapped in a blood wet White he walked slowly to Guy on the litter and squatted beside you All right the walking Man wheres my helmet the litter Case wanted to Why dont they give me my helmet i had the platoon after you got the Walker my the litter Case you seen my helmet any place he looked at the walking Man the Way a Blind Man i had the platoon for ii the Walker we were fatal up the we  even see i got bit with its going to the Man on the litter said its going rain like there was a big space Between the words when he i  dig like the Walker youre the Best ser Geant in the whole you should of seen me when i took i wish you were i want my the litter Case its going to rain like it was a Childs voice they cant whip the Walker they cant lick tin All we got to do is Knock the Damn mortars out t just Lousy sneaky the tank came Down the it was burning and you coulis be see where the shells the Walker watched it come toward re the on the litters still looked at the the Crew came up through the Turret of the tank and put the fire with blankets they took from the sgt Voe of counted seven the borrowed a Periscope from the tank which was there to protect they got tie motor going and went Back up the sired and the walking wounded watched them go and then heard them the people on the stretchers Lay deep in the boredom of the Walker wounded shouted there going up to dig them out the medical jeep backed up and four corpsmen picked up sergeant on the Stretcher and tied him on with you got it the walking Man said to the litter got it my the litter Case said no one at All the jeep surd wheres Ray helmet they tagged the walking wounded and asked him for the in personal the walking Marine the fat corpsman personal or Yon to i of your i got that from a state Highway policeman in u walking wounded i killed three gooks with that Little old the corpsman were just holding it for can pick it up at regiment when you come the Walker a loosened the strap of the Holster wit a his hand and handed it to the he was 3 c 4 i to it u to i 01 d Elbi Sint or on it Sige the Tiv in aft str a i the the by by was of  for czechs seen get least and possibly russian army officers of Field Grade or higher Are in Czechoslovakia to convert that country army into a Little red according to dip reports these reports coincided with predictions Here that Russia will Send a soviet marshal to Prague to head the czech army As marshal Kons Tantin Rokos Sovsky did in Rokos Sovsky is considered As the dictator of Poland presumably a soviet marshal for if the Kremlin sends would assume similar Consumers boy col dime Coke in to 8 some Consumers were Swit brands today rather than Shell a dime for a bottle of cola the show of resistance found in a spot Check made Alexandria retailers doubled Price of the traditional 5cent six persons questioned sail would abstain rather than meet from its thing else bul Billy a All o girl friends feel the same was Alexandria was the Only reporting such a Price hike company spokesman Steve Gan said in new York that Tio wide increase under  
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