European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1960 the stars and stripes a world War ii ended France disputed move by allies a in Jun world w h hardly French general refer  Gaulter threat his troops against a Cong Italy s Border with franc this unbelievable threat we used by president Harry fuman in a stiff message Tol r i forced the United Tes to Stop furnishing  do Gaulle s army. Nine somatic papers disclosing Hhand Ole incident were see Public by the state depart was French irritation by the Well known in Ipri Arity Complex which often sates itself into Chest thumping and insistence that Altce is a great Power and must be treated As Suchi wrote Jefferson Caffery then . Ambassador to France in a march1 1945, message to Washington. While the Anglo american forces under Field marshal har old r. L Alexander supreme commander in the Mediterranean theater advanced to Italy s Northern Borders French forces occupied the Val d most area and refused to move Back when Alexander s troops arrived. The French did not conceal that they had political reasons Paris requested a modification of the Border with Italy. As Alexander Kirk . Politi Cal adviser to Alexander re ported May 17, the situation be came very serious when the French continued to infiltrate troops and others under military cover who change to civilian clothes and Parade As italians favouring French  and Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower supreme Allied commander intervened in vain. Moreover on May 30, Gen. Paul Doyen commander of the French army in the Alps wrote to his opposite number com manding the . In corps that general de Gaulle has instructed me to make As clears possible to the Allied com Mand that i have received the order to prevent the setting up of Allied military government i territories occupied by our troops and administered by us by All necessary Means without  message Truman wrote to de Gaulle june 6. Contains the almost unbelievable threat that French soldiers bearing american arms will combat american and Allied soldiers. I have no alternative but to is sue instructions that no further issues of military equipment or munitions can be made to French  Gen. Alphonse Pierre juin chief of staff of the French army was dispatched to Alexan Der by de Gaulle to arrange a settlement. In the official part of the meet ing the Veteran French Soldier s Mam interest was to find a for Mula which would save face or do Gaulle Kirk reported to Washington. But Kirk s message said Inell As " 1 e after Tho meeting juin 38 � is that de Gaulle s position in this situation had been most unreasonable and that Henad been very impetuous. Al san very in the French if it was out of sympathy Houston studios soul with him on this  was a similar incident earlier that year when the papers said Gen. Jean de latter de tas Signy commander of the French 1st army repeatedly violated orders by Gen. Eisen Hower. Eisenhower ordered de tas Signy to evacuate Stuttgart occupied by French troops be cause the German City was in the occupation zone of the .7th army. De tas Signy refer ring to de Gaulle s orders re fused. I can no longer count with certainty upon the operational use of any French forces Eisenhower stated in an april 28 letter to de  am shocked by the attitude of your government Truman commented in a May 1 message to Tho French  cause of All this friction was that the French were no represented in the combined chiefs of staff de Gaulle replied to Eisenhower. The . Ambassador sent Sev eral reports to Washington on de Gaulle s anti american feel Ings on French Public opinion and also on conversations he had with the French Leader. Already in january of 1945, Ina comprehensive report on French grievances against the United states Caffery said that they were an old Story to americans who dealt with French problems in London and Algier before the liberation of  despite de Gaulle s insistence that the French resistance and his army liberated France most French know that the american army was the weapon which struck off the shackles of slavery and de Gaulle s gesture hit Many of them As the height of ingratitude the envoy Saidon March 1. But on March 10, Caffer acknowledged that the French people in general had come to regard de Gaulle As a valiant defender of the Honor  Garden huddle president Johnson walks in the White House Rose Garden with leaders of the . Delegation named to Confer in Paris with representatives of North Vietnam. Ambas Sador w. Averell Harriman right will head the delegation. At left is Cyrus Vance who will advise Harriman on the military aspects of the discussions. Associated press photo blasts High court. Too Nixon blames lbs for crime Rise new York a Richard. Nixon said wednesday that the Johnson administration has been lame and ineffectual in its attempts to Deal with a Stag c the Samuel Stu a once co Haywood of Europe sold this week for $1.25 Mil it was reported Here fill crashes 2 eject safely Nellis fab nov. Up infill a Jet the controversial new air Force plane which recently was introduced to combat in Viet Nam crashed wednesday on training flight 60 Miles North of Las  instructor and student Pilot ejected safely. The planes have come under criticism since three of a Squadron of six sent to thai land were lost in a matter of  air Force said the cause of wednesday s crash was no known and that a Board of officers had been appointed to investigate the Accident. The fill jets first were use Din Basic training at Nelus before a Squadron was transferred to Thailand. Of the three lost Over Vietnam two have been  had been lost before or training flights out of  recently upheld appropriation for continuing development of a Navy version of the fill. Gering increase in  former vice president a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination said that he supreme court is  the peace forces in our society and strengthening the criminal  said organized crime is enjoying Halcyon clays with on source estimating its annual haul from gambling prostitution narcotics and loan sharking at $50 billion a  crime he said has in creased to the Point where peo ple Are afraid to go out. He said the police Are undermanned an underpaid and the prison sys tem is a  the present rate of new crime continues the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the United state today will double by the end of 1972," Nixon said in a statement. The nation will then be whatsit is fast becoming an armed Camp of 200 million american living in  Nixon said that crime cannot be charged off to poverty and that the Johnson administration bears major responsibility for perpetuation of the  controversial visit started by Selassie Jakarta a emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia arrived Here tuesday for his controversial six Day state visit As Security forces reportedly rounded up 200 suspected trouble Mak  organizations protested against the 72-year-old Selassie visit. They claimed the Christian emperor was persecuting mos lems in his country. Documents pose Wii Riddle Washington a in the Spring of 1945, Washington and London agreed that the .army should liberate Prague from the germans and the Mil itary called the plan feasible. But the americans halted some20 Miles South of the czech Cap ital and the reason is still unexplained. In our View the liberation of Prague and As much As possible of the territory of Western Czechoslovakia by . Troops might make the whole difference to the postwar situation in Czechoslovakia and might Well influence that in nearby countries Secretary of state Edward r. Stet Tinius wrote in a memorandum dated april 28, 1945.prime minister Winston Chur chill used the same words in Ani april 30 message to president Harry s.  documents Are among Many hundreds made Public bythe state department thursday. The department in a position paper sent to Truman on May 5, recalled that the . Had Al ready had difficulties with the soviet Union in Austria and i Czechoslovakia where Moscow refused to permit american diplomats of join president edouard Benes in Kosice the temporary seat of the czech govern j  the american armies pushed i on to the Moldau River which runs through Prague this would give us a Strong bargaining position with the russians the position paper  four Days later May 9, it was the red army which occupied Prague. Ambassador Robert Murphy political adviser to  d. Eisenhower said in a dispatch from Paris that according to the military it could have been a comparatively Sim ple matter for the . 3rd army to have penetrated deeply into Czechoslovakia and to have taken  nowhere do the documents reveal Why Gen. George s. Pat ton s Force did not do so. In another of the diplomatic messages declassified thursday w. A v e r e 11 Harriman . Ambassador to m o s c o a reported that Stalin in a rare moment of Candor said czech communist leaders who spent the War years in Moscow were Good patriotic men but wore Blinker meaning that they were concentrating too much on their own ideology and he suggested to Benes that he should undertake to broaden their out look. History shows that Benes failed to do so. He died after the1948 communist coup a lonely Man who saw his dreams of democratic Czechoslovakia com ing to naught. Ice threatens Iceland Reykjavik Iceland up unseasonable Arctic cold has Frozen the fjords of Northern and Northwestern Iceland for the second time this year and threat ens disaster to the Iceland fishing Industry. Dekker s death ruled accidental Hollywood a the death of actor Albert Dekker was tentatively ruled thursday As accidental Dekker was found dead in his apartment sunday with rope around his neck. Dekker a was found in the bathroom of his apartment by the apartment manager. He suffocated the autopsy showed. Herbert Mcroy Deputy Cor Oner said a rope tied to a Shower pole was wrapped around both of desk cd s legs one of his arms and knotted tightly around his neck. Mcroy said police also found two hypodermic Needles in the body which was facing the flooring a crouched position. We have no information that this individual Dekker planned to take his own life so it will tentatively be listed As an Acci dental death Mcroy  is certainly a strange death Mcroy said but jus because there was a rope around his neck does not mean that recommitted