London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 and Smipes c of ii the army Tut my k m Tounta err year Vita Eto ease Ful at Etc and Flatt matter at the foil Ait to the act of Materia in publication has been written and edited by unharmed members of ate and atty except where stated that a civilian or other outside source it editorial the pro atone House ec4 business mod circulation 37 upper Brook we Esousa District offices Bedford 2184 Swindon 3424 Sutlon cold Leld february 1945 bkg blow or out note by Flag is receiving Many unsigned we require your signature As evidence Good Faith your identity will Ralpl be revealed if you inform us you want your name the lighter Side 1945 to the bag looking at the lighter Side of things and speaking of along with a few Fellows Fiat work Ive been wondering if it would be possible to Send a few recordings to they have some swell programs during the the propaganda makes some of the Best jokes Ive if they Only had some Ino Dern wed be Well a pass form i 1945 to the bag three left from my Squadron have just from London on an order from the i Foost offence having the throng kind of pass it is realized that it is necessary to take All precautions to pick up soldiers Over the but it seems a darn shame that men should be picked up through no fault of their this is Flot a criticism toward the military As they have to carry out their but the Point is Why Arent the different organizations notified to enable them to get a Supply of die required forms and avoid this unnecessary humiliation and embarrassment we used the pm forms at one time but since they became unavailable eight months in this outfit a local reproduction of the pm was report to i personnel officers told the stars land stripes that instructions specifying Kise of the pass form were issued to if than a month before use of the form Fras they also said that when printed forms Are cos Are authorized to duplicate j free Enterprise 1945 to the a Flag in answer to sobels letter 0m being More than critical in my cussing of your condemnation of free enter it is ideas like yours which will upset the deep and natural optimism necessary for the growth of our capitalistic Type of our did not stave off the neither did russian communistic but they also did not the War As did the extremists in totalitarian and our system of free and individual enter prise Hals shown itself invaluable to the successful completion of this i tiling that i am right in assuming that you advocate either socialism or communism to increase the Prosperity of the individual Man in if it leads tothe Standard of living As in or to a War which is the result of diabolic collectivism in Germany and bad better adhere to our gift of free site reprise More than explain More clearly the remedy Titer Crisp that you so nobly put Why didst you just say l and forget about beating and Ibert Tang and trotting around the please for free commit now that Shirley Temple has had her first real kiss from Here on in it will Only Lake a reel or two before Shes in the heros if a go had written that song hit about would you like to swing on a or would you rather be a we it at least one chorus would have or would you rather be a Wolf observation by de Click if Frank Sinatra could make men swoon Ike the women we could have him broadcast before each attack and demoralize the nazis at the Nissen hut dwellers who Are inhere a by Daw has a new he places a pm cookie can on a shelf so that when a mouse crawls out to his added weight upsets can which Bangs on the floor and registers another rodent with a broken and then there was the vicious mos Quito who 1 have just begun to ode to a guard House he who thinks by the Inch and talks by the Yard should be dealt with by the from the pen of Lopez and Zemball comes this suggestion for an Eto highball for men who Are nervous in the service if you get the jitters from bitters go wild on mild and Pale on take a notch of a Little Rye on the sly a bit of Gin for a spin and then a Shandy if if on the try spelled who said that with so Many nazis dying for de fuehrer there is a possibility that hades is beginning to look like times Square on new years 4e a a i patient a pretty nurse is supposed to have a Healing effect if you can Call a rising tempera Ture a sign of an editorial this is a dead fascist Riri his German i for Soldier died to him the state avas the individual he believed Germany to be a nation of Superior Quality and that Germany needed and was entitled to living living space to be taken by at the other Guys he had no Legal but he didst he was convinced that Rule by a few master minds was better than by a majority of free Well informed he pledged his life to his for his master he Laid his life he had Only such Legal Protection As the state chose to give the state that was the clique in and the nazi their Laws were in applicable in one Way to one in another Way to another dependent on the color of his the Creed of his the Quality of his the fascism which this Man made and and for which he had three Corner contempt for the common disregard for the dignity and Security of the the subservience of All to the a Bullet this fascist question what does it take to kill a fascist idea Are i an american looks at countrymen abroad its the brass that the Joes that cheer wherein an american reporter now in England looks at Anglo american relations three years after the yank inva Sion of the by Marquis Childs United features columnist the longer i stay Here the More i become convinced that the wonder is not that some friction exists Between the two British and but that on on the firing line Uncle Sams doughs Pony up on Bud to Uncle Joes Joes with the 90th 31 the 90th divisions daily mimeographed today went to press with an editorial Eye squinting at the no sofar East and offered its readers a Hal dozen Choice i phrases trans lated into the sniper today presents a few rus Sian phrases which ought to come in Handy any Day wrote editor Jam Del Chicago private who has been turning out the sniper every morning since under supervision of Jim los Angeles and minnea Polis radio the translated include whats your Kava she How Are you Pochee Gayety where is hitlers grave Mog eela have a Khatset up front with Mauldin 1 the whole there has been so Little the american invasion army has Long since and with it the head quarters functions that at one time Over flowed London West but Many both in uniform and Are still quartered in crowded and especially in Jam packed to understand what this Means you have to try to imagine what it would be like if the shoe were on the other for an army of British allies arriving in the United they would take Over Many clubs and apartment houses in washing new Boston and other imagine these invading allies not Only As having twice As much Money to spend As the War racked but also bringing with them their own special foods of a Quality and Quantity not obtainable by the imagine such stuff imagine them filling night clubs and getting All the attractive girls and rampaging with staff trucks and jeeps Over the on top of Many invading britishers would Tell us they had come to save us in a War that was not when we would feel a deep conviction that the foe was aiming at Britain just As much As at our allies would Tell us quite frankly they did not like our country and were Only longing and Pray ing for the Day when they could go Back you can imagine How Long an explosion would be in coming under such Cir there Are at least three reasons Why it has never happened one is the Basic friendliness of the and the second is the Basic Good will of the the third is the fundamental desire of Eisenhower to work in Harmony with our the impression you get today is that cooperation is excellent the top tween High and at the Bottom Between the average american and the average theres a Middle layer there a Middle layer in which a great Deal of beefing and complaining goes there is a layer of majors and lieutenant colonels on the military Side and subordinate officials on the civilian it is at this level that the number of americans still in London seems some were brought Over to do jobs that were postponed when the War in Europe was there Are also trippers who want to have a look at the War in Europe and therefore think up some reason for coming often their reason is Flimsy and their equipment for the if one is they take up the time of both British and and when they have seen enough they go on i Joe 1945 to Stuj reference the recent Campaign against i our considered opinion is that the average i is a pretty Good Joe who Doest too much about such but if it helps keep up civilian morale More Power to Frederick 1945 to the bag whats All this fuss about calling us i because it implies our being jerks i Good we Are the thanks to a minority that overshadows the is the loudest and most ill mannered being he has two drink and and he promptly abuses and cheapens the biggest mystery in the world is How this Sanjive when transferred to the suddenly and miraculously be Cornes the worlds greatest l say this after returning from five months of and watching the same Guy who used to specialize in staggering into the Barracks now bring in a staggering line of it beats pvt radio program japs caper then comes Marine fireworks display a Newroe Fures in the course of getting the japanese situation Well in the marines have had a few Good laughs at the ear who has a funny Way of doing Here Are some of the collected Fay i ast her to teach me to she taught me to american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin on tour dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 1 Bailey sports up the inc n swing away up the sports supper music Mckinney mercers music and and a news from the and off until 0755 2 of album with Connie by los by Carson Robinson and Bis ranch after Crosby music up the news from the on the continent listen to your favorite an programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces program 583 also shortwave band Between 0800 and 1900 Bare skin brigade three japanese on Guam popped out of an emplacement out paraded solemnly in single file in front of yank walked ten paces then until shot tank opener during cute american attack on the Mai japanese hopped on top of a a Vii tried to pry open Hatch with his he about it As if opening a