Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Y by special service ulling Indre ii arts Arrtie telephones at the office at printed by Paul june j044 Jay Gene Richani associate editor Arthur United signal a nth Public rela v to Roosevelt galls Eric ans to prayer it in a broadcast an audience of perhaps president Roosevelt beseech a almighty god 10 to tue Allied invasion the presi composed the prayer Between Compie Uig a radio a duress and hearing the first direct reports of Allied landings in the pc americans in this poignant i ask you almighty god oar Pride of our this Day live set Upun a my his a struggle to out our Ana our and 10 Sufie Hng Lead hem and give to their Stout Ness to their Slead f As mess to Tivey will Neca our their Road will be Long and 1ne enemy is May hurl pack our Suc Cess May not Rushi Speed Bat we Snail return again and and we know by Lay and by the Ngaire Rusness of our our sons Wilt they will be sorely by night and without rest till the Victory is the Dar win be rent by noise and mens Louis will be Shak n with me violence of these Are men lately drawn from the ways of they fight not for the vast of they Jint to end Litey Wigim to they let Justice and Toie Rance and Good jul among All Ilia they yearn out the end of for their ret n to the i alien of some will never embrace the and receive them thy heroic into Oliy kind and for us at Sisters and a rotifers of Brave men Over thoughts and Pray is Are Ever with Almi Eltiy to ourselves in renewed Faith in this hour of great Many people have urged that i Call the nation to a single Day of special and the desire is i ask that oar people devote themselves in a continuance of As we rite to each new and again when each Day is let words of prayer be on our invoking thy help to our give us in our daily to Redou ble our contributions we make in the physical and material sup port of our armed and let our hearts be to wait out Long to Bear sorrows that May to impart our courage unto our sons wherever they May 0 give us give us Faith in Faith in our Faith in each fall in our United let not the keenness of our spirit Ever be let not the impacts of temporary of temporary of but fleeting not these deter us in our unconquerable with thy we shall prevail Over the unholy forces of our help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial Lead us to the saving of our and with our sister nations into a world Unity that will spell a sure peace Invulnerable to the scheming of unworthy and a peace that will let All men live reaping the just rewards of their honest thy will be almighty Catholic rally this weekend a general communion with a Sermon and solemn Bene diction by the very reverend a thur the Apo Tolic Dele highlights the weekend Ca rally sponsored by the sword of the sprit and the in Cairo saturday and sunday june 10 and men and women of the United forces Are invited to the first of which will be saturday afternoon at 3 Oclock especially for a full conference will be held saturday night in the can teen of the Knadel High mass will be celebrated Sun Day morning at 11 Oclock in the Jesuit College de la sharia opposite the Pont Lii noun and the apostolic Delegate will speak at the same place at in the after this will be followed in a atty and social congressman wants to draft women Washington i Unmil itary minded Young women in the states Are probably having Khaki night mares this week following the introduction in Congress of draft women sponsoring the till is Emanuel Celler of new York Calls for the draft ing of Singi unemployed women Between the age of 20 and Wilh Singh women in the country u and who Are neither employed nor said to reason whatsoever exits Why the women branches of the armed service must go begging for v old steel across the Channel Carrier lost in Atlantic the car Block was suck in the Atlantic last announced the Navy they were she is the first Carrier to be lost in the Atlantic and the sixth of the tense and this radio photo front London shows two Allied soldiers entering their troop ship in a Pott Tor the of a Ihde forces tuesday on the French own Europe hour of liberation is approaching Eisenhower in a message broadcast to the people of Western Europe on Day said people of Western Europe a Landing was made this morning on the coast of Fiance by troops of Allied expeditionary this and Injo is part of the concerted United nations plan for the liberation of Europe made in conjunction with our great rus Sian i have this message for All of although the initial assault May not have been made in our the hour of liberation is i do not endanger your wait until i give you the signal to Rise and strike the signal come the Day will come when i shall need your United until that i Call on you for a hard task of discipline and res i am proud to have again under my command the Gallant forces of France fighting beside their they will play a worthy part in the liberation of their Homeland because the initial Landing has been made on the soil of our i repeat to you my ones Sage to the of other occupied countries in Western eur follow the instructions of your a premature uprising of All frenchmen May prevent you from being of the maximum help to your country in this Cri tical be a liberated France Asj supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary Force there imposed on me the duty and responsibility of taking All Mea sures necessary for the prosecution of the prompt and willing obedience to Thi orders that i shall Issue is the effective civil administration of France must be provided by All persons must continue with their present unless otherwise those who have made common cause with the enemy and so betrayed their country will be re when France is liberated from her you yourselves will choose your representatives and the govern ment under which you wish to in the course of this Campaign for the final defeat of the you May sustain further loss and tragic though they May they Are part of the Price of i assure you that i shall do All in my Power to mitigate your harsh creat Battles lie ahead i know that i can count on your steadfastness less than in the the heroic deeds of frenchmen that have continued the struggle against the nazis and their Vichy satellites in France and throughout the French Empire have been an example and an inspiration to All of this Landing is but the open ins phase of the Campaign in Western great Battles lie i Call upon All who love free Dom to stand with us keep your Faith our arms Are shall achieve fou Power peace confab on Calendar Washington Cordell Hull announced last week that he had computed the first of discussions with a subcommittee of the Sun Ute foreign com Mittee and is now ready to with repress stat Ives of great Britain and the possibility of establishing an International big animation to keep president Roosevelt announced on the next Dav that first drafts of a plan to establish world machinery to aggression and tabs of territory had been drawn buy More War Bonds Aii issued by Eisenhower to each individual of the Allied expeditionary for Csc said and airmen of the Allied Force you Are about to embark upon the great towards which we have striven these Many the eyes of the world Are upon the Hopes and prayers of i Bert Loving everywhere March with doom of nazi tyranny in company with our Brave and bothers in arms on other you will bring about the destruction of the German War the elimination of nazi tyranny Over the oppressed people of Europe and Security for ourselves in a free your task will not be an easy your enemy is Well equipped and Batile Harden he will fight but this is the year much has happened since the nazis triumphs of United nations have upon the German March of Freedom our air has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage War on the our Home fronts have Given us overwhelming superiority weapons and of the tide has the free men of the world Are marching together to i have full Confidence in your de Votion to duty and skill in Tat we will accept nothing less than full Good Luck and let us All be Seech the Blessing of almighty god upon this great and Noble secrecy of Day was one of wars greatest feats by Robert English invasion the invasion was just like a baby birth everyone knew it was going to happen but no one knew where or now it is possible to reveal what precautions were taken at this invasion to safeguard the Security of the the Job which was done by the office of counterintelligence waa one of greatest feats of the every Man embarking at this from the general Down to the lowest Pri knew exactly where he was what he was going do and How he was going to do tiie amazing thing is that he knew it More than a week before Day and yet the secret was so Well kept by these thousands upon thousands of men that the towns people passing within three feet of them had no idea of their destination or once told this the troops were quarantined and completely Cut off from All outside Contact until they were safely aboard As far As it is known Only two men escaped and both were captured whistles plugged Tom who is in charge of intelligence at this explained the painstaking precautions left to he once they had moved into this area Ami had been Given their instructions Thuy might As Well have be n in As the troops moved aboard slip it was easily seen How completely the Weie for the presence of hundreds of both civilian and uni not one guy11 even so much As whistled although the twirls passed with a few of the troops awaiting their turn
