European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sailors outnumber natives in the main Street of major american naval base in the far where most gobs get s Shore leave in Yokosuka onetime base of the Imperial japanese is crowded these Days with sailors when their ships tie up at what has become a major american naval installation in the far when the gobs hit the Beach swarm through streets searching the quaint bargain stores and gift shops for something unusual to Send to the folks Back after a few hours the sailors return to their ships to prepare for another tour of duty at sea in korean already anticipating that next even sailors show their interest in ships in a gift shop in bicycle rickshaws provide transportation or gobs when their sealers become at years John Stein Becks East of Eden still topped the stateside bestseller followed by the Silver by Thomas Edna Ferber giant was with Herman works the Caine Mutiny Francis Parkinson Keyes Steamboat gothic slipped into fifth place in the final Tabu the German by Veit Alfred cover Price Price re late Veit after a score of books on Central european German for eign policy and left us this most readable history of Germany in his Story of the storm Center of Europe from the holy roman Empire to the third first published in is not Only the Story of the hanseatic Martin Napole Bismarck and the last iwo world it is also the Story of the musicians and the philosophers and ideas and cultural movements that have helped shape the destiny of a Valentin discovered that unbalanced the German National Ger Many and germans have been torn rather than shaped into a by the and dynastic quarrels left the people jealous and ambitious without the princes who ruled the Tor asunder country ruined Germany socially and morally and instilled in the people their respect for the the the office and inside dynastic rivalries and the wounds caused by the reformation made the people sep tical of the Central and supreme v the arrogance and re of German court society found their Way into the National the lower classes were always and the a Jority of the nation was infected with the spirit of valentins chief explanation for the striking successes of National i Nurst germans Are exr specializing in some Parr titular Field practical science or the they fortify their individualism with exaggerated be come but they have to sacrifice something for writes and what is Many sailors on Liberty visit injured buddies aboard Hospital feature Section sacrificed has often been their equilibrium As human Thi Lack of balance in the Ger Man National character makes the future Valentin if a nation can become by its Germany ought to be in the future the Wisest nation in the but a German always re Mains a exactly As a Frenchman remains it is part of the Wisdom of All Good education to take Char it has been shaped by god it is possible to Reform but not to transform it it is possible to develop the Good and suppress the or rather to develop the Good in the and to modulate the Pupil by an Appeal tothe instincts of self preservation and Socia Bil and Swastika generals and nazis in the third by Telford Simon and cover Price Price this Book is not history by that you mean something that is out of at the very beginning of the Book the author asks him self is the German Volcano dead Telford Taylor or even dormant in like Many i freely accepted notion for better or German dominance of Europe was a thing of the there were devastation and apathy from the Rhine to the the russian influx was torrential there is ample warrant for second perhaps the terrible blows rained on the it is difficult to say whose play was worse in the following souths or West opened the Diamond King and continued with the Declarer Laid Down the heart and then decided to test the Spade West covered the Spade and this seemed to Lull Declarer into very false sense of winning with the Spade he now committed the indiscretion of cashing the heart when East showed out on the second round of Declarer simply went ahead and cashed the rest of his Spade now it was wests turn to commit Ailex Treme apparently he could not Bear to see South take in the fourth so West ruffed that round and Laid Down his last Bridge by Josephine Culbertson West both sides both sides 60 on 4x98 vqj97 4ak6 4 a j62 v 10 5 4 2 j3 n w e 5 3 t q 10 8 7 542 65 4 q 10 74 v a k 8 6 the v Ruhr have not but rather the will the German steel Flash again and if there and in which array of Only one thing am i certain no question should be More anxiously weighed the men who Are striving to ride the whirlwind of these whether in w a s h i n mos or even Ber Lin and Brig Gen Telford has had these problems on his mind for a Long As an officer in military intelligence he was a specialist on the German High the world knows him As chief of counsel for the prose cution of War criminals at turn with the publication of this Taylor has another Feather in his Cap he is a Good and has an Eye for a Good Alec a Reichback into and a in the Early part of the Book he explores German military the Golden age of Moltke and and world War l so steeped in Noble tradition and the 18th Century was the German officers corps during world War Taylor is Able to report the following in 1913 the general staff had proposed the creation of three new army which the Man Power of the country was fully adequate to but the old acting through the prussian War rejected the proposal it would have required a Large number of new most of whom would have to come from Bourgeois the top could no longer meet the demand for and rather than draw upon circles hardly fit and classes which Only in exceptional cases Supply useful material for the officer the army was restricted in two or three additional corps on the German right Wing in 1914 might Well have carried the initial attack in the West to the Point of no social changed All this and called up such plebes As and Schoer but tradition won out and plebes As arrogant As their Blu blooded the cause of a major Point of friction Between the nazis and the officers there Are pages of organizational rank notes and a bibliography that turn this into a major source Book for the but for one and All it is rating unfortunately for the this was Only a because Dummy still had a Trump with which to Ruff the following Diamond when wests club Ace was knocked he could Only make the lame return of a South should have been much More careful about up his Trump after leading Only one High safety demanded that he follow up with a Low As the play actually pro West missed an outstand ing he should have discarded a club on the fourth round of Spades then when he got i with the club Ace he could draw Trumps and Lead his last giving East the rest of the tricks and setting the contract 500 Courtesy of King features in