Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday August 28, 1943the stars and stripes weekly fag 3 i picture Miler won to Tike Russia bewildering to foreign visitors by Quentin Reynolds Collyer s weekly correspondent wildly cheering italian civilians Are riving vent to their feelings of Relief that War and fascism Are Over for them As they accompany american soldiers Down the principal Street of a sicilian City. A photo by army pictorial service an axe h ung Over London a head just four years ago by Helen Kirkpatrick the fresh greenness of the English Countryside and the unusual warmth of a late August Sun Lent a peaceful air of unreality to the whole scene. Vacationers in Cornwall in Wales and in Scotland filled the hotels spread themselves Over the beaches and climbed the mountains As though Neville chamberlains words Quot peace in our time had forever warded off the might of German militarism. Only in London was it obvious that Britain was All too Well aware of the impending blow. Parliament hastily recalled on August 25th, was meeting daily. Ministers went in and out of no. To Downing Street at All hours of the Day and night. Anthony Eden a Reserve officer donned his majors uniform and led his men across London squares to Victoria station. Evacuation began on september 1st the evacuation began. Long lines of school children paraded through the City streets shepherded by their teachers headed for quiet country districts. Housewives calmly but hurriedly bought Yards of Black cloth for blacking out their houses and grocers sold thousands of cans of food for the emergency stores the government had advised householders to have on hand. Amer Gan correspondents divided correspondent for Chicago daily Beautiful Day. I slept late sex news who was in London on that Hausted by the tense trying weeks fatal Day four years ago sept. 3,1 of August. The radio blaring across 1939, when great Britain declared the Street awakened me a Little War on Germany before eleven. I turned mine on. Arr a a a Over it came the slow measured words of Britain a prime minister stating that Britain was at War with Germany. Scarcely had he finished his Short tragic speech than the Wail of the air raid is attack Poland at a woman ahead of me stood for a moment scanning the paper. A a what does it mean a i asked her not because i did no to know but i wondered what her reaction s rens sounded would be. J London did no to have its first Mem m bombs for another year until Var near Warsaw Rotterdam and the towns a a War of course a she answered of Belgium and Northern France in the tone one would use to a Lay in ruins. But Britain was at trying child. Her manner implied War. Its men went quietly off to that Only an idiot could think be Barracks the ships and the otherwise. A Man standing behind j airfields and its children left their me spoke As much to himself As families for the safety of the office Downing Street and their offices As the news tickers report to me Quot we pledged our word to Poland we must there no one in Britain who believed that it could be still out. Otherwise. Not Only had Britain _ Given her word to Poland As she had not to Czechoslovakia that in Case of a German attack she would fight but everyone knew that once the German War machine was set in motion it would not Stop with Poland it would sweep Europe on its Road to world Conquest. Tension mounted throughout Friday and saturday. Why had Britain and France not declared War on saturday evening Neville Countryside. The lights went out All Over Britain. That was four years ago Friday. Tile lights Are italian radio says people sick of War their time Between the foreign Kigiu underlain told parliament that an ultimatum had been sent to Germany demanding the imme withdrawal from Poland. Of German he awaited de concentrations of German troops it Riate along the polish Border the Po-1 Troolis Lish rejection of the German notes the ans or fhe ultimatum would demanding in p of amp Sibl e to Nee is us j expire eleven sunday morning. Those of us who stood in Downing Street for hours on end knew that the French government was and the hurried Midnight flights of the British ambassador Between Berlin and London. The american ambassador Joseph i hesitant seeking vainly by every Kennedy no longer cantered up and Down the Row in the Early mornings the lights in his office burned All night every night. At noon on september 1st, i went Down to the Corner of Whitehall for a noon paper. Its headlines were blatant a a German planes bomb Warsaw a a germans Means to avoid War to wriggle out of its commitment to Poland. We knew that saturday afternoon the British government i my informed the French Premier Daladier that Britain would declare War no matter what France did. Sunday september 3rd, army blood batiks help recovery of soldiers wounded american soldiers in infused with a live blood evacuation and general hospitals smoother medical sailing than soon will be aided on their Road to those treated with plasma Slop recovery by a newly est wished Ness in preparation difficulties of Chain of a a blood Banks which will standardizing equipment and the collect Anc store whole blood for inability of plasma to rebuild a transfusions. Tents for the operating table led supplementing the use of dried oct is 1x50 More and More plasma in front line units the a blood. Blood Banks a will provide for a col. Edward d. Churchill of speedy and revitalizing dose of Boston mass., professor of medi a live blood so vital to patients clone Harvard University and requiring surgical treatment. Consultant at the Massachusetts m. ,. Hospital now consulting surgeon for troops in North Africa has Quot err Quot to a a pioneered in setting up blood Banks a graphic indication of the italian people s weariness of War was expressed this week by radio Rome which admitted the nation was a a in an awful the whining tone of the message in English was the lowest the official italian propaganda station has Ever dropped in its conciliatory tone toward the allies. A a we have no great cause to fight for a the announcer said. A a we Are just fighting for our sins. Maybe we Are All we Are said to be. On the nth r hand however we Are simply a hard working lot which Haa gone through an unpleasant meantime reports that count was a j Oino grand form a italian ambassador to London was in Lisbon to negotiate with a British a delegation for an armistice came. From the italian front it r Corre a Spondon of the Swiss newspaper i an cult it was a Madrid report that Grandi had passed through the Spanish capital on an unexplained had Mission. The Bado Iio government remained silent. From Switzerland came the Story that Bado Iio had asked the the Swiss governia it and the holy see to notify Washington Russia is a very Peculiar country which no foreigners a and very few russians understand. After i had spent five weeks in the country thought i knew everything about it. After id spent five months there i was As bewildered As a i who has gotten an invitation to dinner from a three Star general. Anyone who really tries to understand Russia is nuts. But there arc a few things i did learn about the country and the people. I know that you can to spend a month there without going completely overboard on the people and if that makes a communist that Sall right with to. As a matter of fact Russia is the Only country in be been in where there is no communism. What their government is i done to know but if it is communism it Isnit the kind of communism our crackpots at Home prattle about men and women who work in factories get time and a half for overtime just As our people do at Home. The Farmer who grows the most wheat and potatoes makes the most Money and once he fills his allotted quota he can sell his extra produce for anything he wants. Two months ago there was a big War Bond drive on in Moscow and one Farmer bought 250,000 dollars Worth of Bonds. Is that communism i done to know. No red supermen that brings up another Point. Everyone at Home seems to think that a red army Soldier is a combination of Superman and Dick Tracey. He Isnit. For the most part he is a gent who was maybe tending his farm or driving a truck or earning his Way through College Only two years ago and who never had any thought of putting on a uniform. In Short these red army soldiers Are our kind of Guys who done to give a Damn about politics the next eclipse of the Sun or what the world will be like in 1989. All they want to do is to get the War the hell Over so they can go Home. At the beginning of the War Russia had a Well trained professional army. Unfortunately Germany had a Well trained and equally professional army which during the first six months of War almost completely annihilated this original russian army. The russians themselves admit this. When this standing army fell in Battle around Kiev Kharkov Smolensk Yama and such places Uncle to Stalin had to hastily recruit a civilian army. He told marshal Vor Shilov to train them in a hurry. Vor Shilov went to work. I saw these recruits Back in the fall of 1941 and they were As awkward As a tree full of elephants. But a few months later they saved Moscow and now they re surging Forward and of anyone thinks they re going to Stop once they get the Hun on the run he is cuckoo. But they Are no supermen. They re just Good Tough gigs with fairly Good leadership. One Day i was standing with Brig. Gen. A. J. Mickela our military attache in Moscow. A re j army regiment passed Enro Ute to the front. Even their band wet out of step. It was hard to believe. That this ragged marching Sloppy looking Bunch would be Able to fight germans two weeks later. Said to Gen. Mickela a what the hell have they got anyhow this must have three qualities a they have three things,1 a Mickela said. A they have guts a Tillery and a word called i knew they had guts All Arn have that Well almost a Annie knew they had great Artille but id forgotten about the won a a Niche vol which is the to common word in Russia. Its har to translate into English. Once was in a Moscow Hospital talk ii to a Soldier who had lost in legs i sympathized with him Fille shrugged his shoulders lamed and said what meant was to does no to Matt another translation would be what a no matter How to things Are with the russians t always say Quot Nich Evo. A no in How they suffer or How much to have to sacrifice they never i that philosophy of life and to helps make them Good sold it i Haven t any soap Box to y from and in a not one of the pinks who is too yellow to be a but i have nothing but resp and admiration for these Pete of Russia. Lots of people ask y a a will we have to fight Russia p Ter the War a those half i ought to be slapped in the Nea est Hoose Gow. These russian Civ tans As Well As soldiers Are tempi Dally pro american. Hitler dealt War cards on eve of world Wax program was announced by the surgeons office Nat Ousa following four months of research and questioning of medical officers in combat areas. It was discovered that use of whole blood transfusions had served a purpose to which powdered plasma was not always adequate. Similar to red Cross blood store depots in the United states. Functioning much tile same As red Cross collecting agencies blood Bank teams in army Evacula by Pierre j. Huss ins correspondent a gloomy atmosphere Hung Over Berlin the night of aug. 29, 1939. Everything smelled of War and nobody wanted it. The air was full of deadly rumours and the German faces in the streets and cafes were Long and sour. It was generally known that the hectic negotiations Between London Paris and Berlin so far had reached More or less a deadlock with Hitler demanding that the British and French exert pressure Tat. Only oth r hint ofsuch00 the poles to a special empowered Delegate to Berlin to talk terms hereunder Poland could buy for herself another lease of peace with Germany. I went Over to the British embassy Early in the evening to nose around and found a whole stack their fuehrer would take Hitler of bags and trunks in the main and Goebbels were seated in a bet Entrance. I poked my head into eluded Booth at a nearby cabaret Bern to turd Toltl. Dai office of sir a Ellvie Forbes watching the floor show. Yes the b i n adopted to i Clarc Rome an the first counsellor and found in i i indy so it n it a. Him hard at work ripping up of d a Quot a of oficial documents. Italian and g Man commands a from rom. But Washington and j a n Pur. People in London ii Ard nothing about it of-1 of a to new a i 211s Fie Rily i time he said. Sir Neville has earlier in the we Ettore been asked to come Over to the Muti. Had be n Arr sted follow chancellors at 7 15 pm to pick trandum Over to Henderson at ing discovery of c Rions abuses in up hitlers answer to our message j 7 15 that evening and his armies the administrations of controlled organization. Political prison is who fenced in the pre War most of us had a Dull fear in oui breasts that Hitler would win on once More. A few Hundred to liners stood somewhat dejected on the Wilhelm Plata staring a the chancellery and wondering what was going on inside. Tho did no to want War and a Good Manv of them still Clung to their Faith in the fuehrer. They were dead 8ure he was striving with might and main inside that building to find a Way around War As he had done so Many times before. Surely he would not risk a conflict with England and France for the Sake of Danzig and the polish corridor but while the without wondering people what milled course laugh was on the crowd with the beating heart standing on the Wilch Amplatz and on the few million people waiting for the momentous decision of the Hend of the third Reich. The fact was that Hitler had handed his Mem a state a yesterday. Smells like an Multi had orders to Roll into Poland Bema turn to me. Fore Dawn sept. I regardless of were sen shortly after my talk with sir j the outcome of negotiations for Era were i George i was accosted in the Hitler was convinced that at the Tion and general hospitals will col released from prison. Among than lobby of the Adion hotel by the worst the British and possibly the Lect in bottles live blood from Volunteer donors. The donors the were a of Susor Ernest Rossi although the dried blood plasma surgeons office reported will transfusions undoubtedly saved come from non combatant troops thousands of War wounded the in convalescent and a 1 1 wounded Vestiga ions disclosed that patients patients. Andrj Gestapo and warned to keep away or. Ricardo eau a Best known from the English. That was How victims of fascism among int Quot i i knew that England had quit actual who act d As links for stalling and finally gone to War. Justice and lib Rev movements but on the night of aug. 29 the that night he celebrated War not i during the Early Mussolini regime. I Issue still Hung in the balance and 4 peace. French would carry on a Shadow War for a few weeks and then make a Deal. So he played his cards with cold self Assurance
