Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                N i Clit c by Ralph Cohen news of Germany capitulation hit amet gis like a tidal wave in a kiddie too Long and top late was the general feeling expressed of the dragged out Climax in and for personal Celebration was dampened by 1 the one War to go with Japan 2 the funnelling Job of this theater in connection with that War 3 the uncertainty that prospects of Home have be ii enhanced 4 the death of although be Day was proclaimed for other Allied nations but not for a Victory is a Victory and it deserves some flurry of As one Payne fielder heading for the remarked if the nazis can Start a War with a Beer in god we can end it with Cairo  have had a receptive spirit for the surrender festive holidays were being observed on monday Shem first breath of anniversary of King Farouk and the greek orthodox stores were streets were people were in the or in their Homes when the newscast Over broke the an festivities continued into the this commented miss Esther Shem Elnis Sim came As a blast of printers on Holiday stars and stripes had been on Alert a week for the Victory features and hand lettered Heads were standing it the men routinely for the printing Plant with the attitude its about Hope this one is no All looked Forward to a smooth running extra which was estimated to hit the gis in an at the Plant they found Only a few mechanics and no work the scribes were then the excitement jeeps scurried around town round ing up the the Pressman and soft Baurs talked More about the High wind that interfered with their then came a radio helping to solidify the slowly dawning realization that nobody was crying Wolf this some men walked gravely to the Chapel to thank god for his inter More headed for the pm and at the red Cross the baby miss Betty Dowd was conducting the regular Mon Day night Coffee Andrake session in the just As the first gloss of pineapple punch was being miss Ann Davenport Hur ried in rustling the stars stripes recalled miss Dowd the men huddled around the absorbed every word of the Victory but said very that what i must write Home about How mild the reaction was among All of before we pinned up stars a stripes the Only excitement created was when everyone wanted to keep the souvenir leaned Back on his conch and sighed that a me drinking pineapple juice on be if i were Home id buy so Many bottles of Seagram id make it to Day surrender to sleep when the Loudspeaker in Camp hucksters service club blared the May stars and the Linotype All were surrender Ping ponders and brought in except the Keyman the Lino sleeves rolled up and peering through thick Joseph the Boss started set Ting up the bulletins in hand in an hour the first wave of copies rolled off the press and were seeped off to nearby billets and install in another hour another was put and after the Lino operator had been located holidaying near the pyramids a More informed edition was hatched at Midnight for the mail throughout the whirl wind of confirmations and denials editor Gene Lynch stuck by the sheaf the poli tical dispute about be he but the War is Over for the Soldier that what we want to readers  believe it must have impressed them the following morning because the maps were the Only ones who turned out for re enl feted personnel at Payne Fiel attend thanksgiving service marking the end of the european Catholic and jewish services were r a had in the port Chapel at 11 held v James Funk received the hash in the War room of amiet and Over the Large european display map in the Headquarters compound he tacked the announcement Germany it blanketed the Maze of Cray Ned Battle lines which were the focus daily own chalked across its lobby map there licked in one of the Cairo store windows the proprietor scrawled across his map Maneesh Ger Many sky master out fast Payne Fields spymaster rushed through a fou Page it quoted John Brecken commanding officer of the As end of the War in Europe Means simply that our Job of transporting vital supplies to the far East will be even the immediate reaction was re ported to be it was Germany had but the softball games began the a Chow hounds sweated out the line with Little or no comment on the epochal the Dave who edits the daily mime Sheet Payne Field headlined tuesdays Issue Reich gives he observed lost night the authenticated news of Germany unconditional sur Render hit Payne Field with Only a fraction of the expected a couple of dozen premature be Days had already made the event fairly a Kin size pile of empty Beer cans at the pm this morning and an increased flutter of conversation in the there was Little to Mark this Day from any bustling around town with his camera at a signal corps five by five with a at the wag Shack he was setting up for a group shot of Toothy smiles when a blonde who had been Reading the Back of the stars stripes extra turned toward the camera with Tea filled in his plea Sant manner Charley walked Over to her and asked what was the she pointed to the picture of the dead marines in the Pacific and said it wont bring these Saul Bloomstein took his Post at the phone and prepared to receive additional also a flood of queries from i came the first and Bloomstein Emit Ted a yelp that had the whole staff Rushing to his sheaf Dis claims the report he his moans were echoed through the studio As everyone flopped in their seats dreaming of Blue suits with is on the later reports gave More inform and the heaves of Relief almost bugged the programs were interrupted with hews Bulle tins and a 40minute staff prepared patriotic show was put after the station closed Down for the night the men celebrated the event with cokes and Salt posted at the i bus Stop on monday Richard Desemo summed up the observations of Many maps this is no different from a saturday night and less noisy than a pay the British Are raising hell but the americans Are sober and pretty there taking it As a 10minute break in the a pause Between Barman workout busiest Man at Payne Field was Henry i was so Busy at the Beer he i  eat Huckstep station beams news hucksters i radio almost blew its Watts with confusion and Indecki Fred program i was tempted to broadcast the first report but waited for con the staff sat smoking waiting Imp then came the1 sheaf confirmation and authoritative per Mission to air Bob Mest announced the sur Render Flash on a cues regular 9 Oclock omitting All other bulletins to achieve the line was longer than a column of Bobby boxers waiting to kiss is according to Hank manager of the about cans of Beer and cokes were sold the added tuesday night was that Only because All the ration cards were punched other comments on the wars end in Europe were ill do my big celebrating when in banded a piece of paper marked honorable Paul when i first heard the news i took it with a so what later on it began to work inside of me so i joined the Beer line and the Bull Patrick no use going wild Over the we have another Way to fight and there will be More work for us at Payne Evan we All drink Vino and sing about going Home fight Japan better to stay Barozzi italian let the civilians Back the celebrating life goes on the same for us with Only a Little More Herman Fried v to whether intentional the Force of the Victory it was fortunate and played into the of Mili tary leaders who wanted pie to be conditioned for another Job to be i didst Beer ration on monday wild when my replacement Arthur Denmark admi88iow a heed san Francisco foreign minister lie said be had asked of state Stettinius to consider inviting Demri Ark to United nations in Riporto Washington the Navy bounced that the submarine stood Fath is overdue on patrol and presumed this is the fort third sub loss of the a reporter Oroke i j o v7et surrender scoop 3 million to move from Eto in year army plans to move approximately american troops out of Europe within the next nine months and a total of by the end of 12 leaving an occupation Force of about under this newly announced re deployment about including Many who have been prisoners of the will be returned to the states by air and water this revealing the schedule for Rede Charles chief of army stated that during the first three Mont period after be about troops will be moved from the second three an average of will be moved each month and during the third a monthly average of will after redeployment will continue until Only an occupation Force of about is Heads for committee new Truman has accepted chairmanship of the planning committee of a Roose velt National memorial Paris almost of fantastic As the actual end of the War was the manner in which the world heard the news and the circumstances surrounding the telling of the which jumped the gun on the surrender was definitely in bad graces with its sister agencies the in shortly the Story by Edgar Kennedy chief of the a staff on the Western front leaked 54 chagrined Allied news men at sheaf sent a written re quest to they asked that All a correspondents in the theater be suspended until 24 hours after the official announcement of the Eisenhower How that no action could be taken against a news Agency or organization for the act of any individual correspondent or correspond the ban on clamped on soon after its transmission of the Ken Nedy Story was removed after a seven hour investigation on Mon it applies Only to Kenne who broke uhis to How Kennedy Man aged the Miracle of getting his Story through is still an intriguing according to it was transmitted via Paris from Eisenhower to the l office of a and relayed from there to new York via aps leased Cable Facil history repeats by some strange quirk of the stories of Germany surrenders to the which came almost 27 years leaked out and both cases involve the same leading news agencies under almost reversed five Days before world War i ended on november the news was suddenly screamed to the world by which alleged that an armistice had been As in there was no official several Days after Imp told the a ran a denial this it was a which broke the Story too soon and up of Aiji threw m the wet Blanket Day a United p Patch from Paris reported Sharp had stated it ha4 nowhere any official Sta publication up to that Kerning the surrender Man armed forces in no Story to that effect another Odd fact surrender is that which touched celebrations on