Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                For   f v i j 1 Fiu f aft s t a fit Tri Dato v f f v f sports Sefc rate sources j t and Soldier army of the Council of 4 state sat Down 1 the governments Are hop during 4he coming5 Yearl from ther totals was 16 Are confronted with an in Vird Vised Europe which looks to a seemingly Rich America for a Way oui there Are some parallels with the situation that existed after the aftermath then was a deep resentment of the Usa the feeling you have about a Distant relative who goes on enjoying his wealth while you Gale to keep your family this time the same elements Are present but greatly just when we need to collaborate most closely with Western the Clements of a major explosion Are scattered freely the american problem men like who must study the european req tests and do something about Are overwhelmed by the size of the must measure these requests against certain realities that europeans sometimes do not seem to take into first comes the present financial position of the United the National debt during the War has gone close to the three Hundred billion americans both in and out of Are worrying about How it can be sealed Down to at least reasonable they think about the value of the Bonds they have bought and the Money they have in bulging savings the easiest Way All this is directly reflected in the political realities on Capitol the isolationists and the us tra nationalists have a read made there beginning to shout that we can keep the atomic bomb and do As we Damn please any where in the but quite apart Freiji this Lunatic fringe there Are More fundament Al political realities that have to be a easy Way to get votes is to give people what they you can please or Al most everyone by lowering taxes and ending you can make those gestures if you dont bother too much about the future or about the rest of the youre beginning to hear that kind of Campaign noise from both sides of the political these Are realities which con front the president and the men around him who must make the they Are realities which Europe in its misery and uncertainty Seldom the British Case the British Case is in today they have a set of realities that we Over Here tend too often to if an evil Genius had been direct ing the the circumstance sur rounding the end of lend lease could hardly have been More unfortunate for the development of a Friendly working relationship be tween Britain and the United Sta Tes in the the two countries had worked together As allies in the War with very Little huge Amer ican had been quartered in England tight Little Island yet there had been few unpleasant in As every american who has been there in wartime knows England Standard of living Cut to the lit would have been a lot lower without the food that came under peace rationing tougher lend lease had come to be taken for it was a Crutch on which War weary England then a great Many to things happened All at the War in Europe lend lease to continue As Britain prepared to participate in the Pacific Japan without any warning this government announced the end of foreign economic administrator Leo Crow Ley proposed to end it on Vajday so that goods St in the lend lease pipeline would have to be paid for in Cash peace rationing tougher Iii Shock of Tjie announcement came As England has already been told by labor Cabinet ministers to draw the Wellborn Belt a notch or two the ration of food and clothes was to be of what socialist re forms May desire to Intro Britain labor ministers know just As Well As though they were tories that they must Export in order to and in order to Start a program of they must continue to live frugally at Home for an indefinite it seemed that at this critical juncture we were deliberately Tell ing off an the War ended arid we were they May have been can argue that British officialdom should have moved Long before to meet just such an but that is the Way it looked in and there were Many americans who Felt that it waa needlessly brutal and two men who might have prevented u from happening just that Way William Clayton and Dean not in Washington when the decision was Clayton in negotiating in where the news hit him with the same Shock of Surprise that it hit the raises bigger questions the British believed they had an Assurance from Crowley that they would receive at least 30days no Tice of the termination of lend that would give them time to negotiate some new arrange when the blow they asked if they could not continue take lend lease goods under an arrange ment whereby they would be compensated retroactively in Accord with an agreement which would be reached Only after Crowley said he urged them to accept a loan to pay for the goods i process and in this promptly raised questions of bigger import the British say that their financial position is with debts for owed to other countries of 1c billion that they cannot borrow and Marquis ch1lds in till there c a veterans with ent rights Cantito be required to join a Union to get their jobs says selective his rights also take precedence Over any system of seniority Dur ing year in which his old Job policies were Given to local draft boards by the in Steps which May intensify controversies Over closed shop and called Union membership or other conditions not enumerated in the Law not be required to a Veteran prerequisite to reinstate re iterating draft director Lewis eoe Sheys earlier statement that the vet gets Hia old Job Back regardless of this is the Farjat time selective service has publicly clarified the although a spokesman said the policy has been in effect for some Section eight of the draft act says that an honorable discharged vet Able to perform his old Job Mist be reinstated for at least one year either to his old position or one of like seniority Sta Tus and less than a third of All veterans had regular jobs upon entering the service and not All of these had rights to according to estimates by draft of special schools for vets new High schools Here will offer full curricula to vets who want to Complete their mayor la Guardia has one or More new York City schools will offer the courses for the exclusive Benefit of the return ing the mayor said he had informed the Board of Edu cation that if there is a Large number of vets who to finish their secondary the Board should provide separate High schools for a joint proposal was also made by the aboard and the Board of higher education under which vets Lack ing1 some College credits could make up Back work at City colleges while taking regular across the Hudson in Jersey City the Board 9f education also approved a High school exclusively for honorable discharged service men and classes starting go tax Cut proposed tax treatment for veterans and further exemptions for those Over seas time was proposed by Walter George these chairman of the finance suggested that con Gress extend for a year or two an extra exemption of 1500 which All men in uniform have been Al Lowed during the veterans with overseas service records should receive further exemptions based on the length of time they were1 he the Law should be amended so that men mustered out will not have to pre pare income tax returns for their War years when they owe no that kind of thing just piles up does the government no Good and causes terrible annoyance to men who have been Crouch ing in Foxholes out in the South Pacific with no time to attend to their personal practically All legislation affect ing vets passes through the finance the veterans sub committee will begin consideration of profound changes in the go Bill of the principal pressure Beni if for liberalization of the Joan and education vet Roundup Karl Horst who posed William Walker and convinced army officers in Ger Many he Vas a Battle fatigue Vic was sentenced by a Brooklyn Federal court to two years in Pri Wacker pleaded guilty to a charge of impersonating a thus gaining entry to the f a j it Trfnoff last its who Lucky dog is winging his homeward for that state affairs known Asse Parathion from the Skytte took last february and has been responsible for the 31 subsequent putting out some 248 pages of copy averaging eight pages an another impressive figure was the local of 360 cartoons done by the under the heading Good night Sweet Skytte gave up the editorial reins to Roderick Hick an Abadan newcomer from Tunis and tossed Bow jets to his Able and from not Herlys Aba chatter column a staff member tosses one Back into Skytten says Schmitz not Cherly in bidding fare Well we say that we though it be a terrible thing indeed to wish on he could linger longer on the shores of the Shattel working with Skytte has always been a Privi lege and an he who who and who among other the dust rag eleven says we ran into a harem a couple of sundays driving Down Ismail Las main drag in a weapons Carrier Joe Ray spied a Likely camera subject As an Arab led a Large Baboon on a swinging around a Corner into a Side Street Ray ground to a Stop and was off after the ten who had come along for the ride and a Shooti Jit the Suez stand up for a almost the sound of female laughter comes to them from behind the crowd ing to one Side of the Strain to peek Over a Dull Grey stucco what they see is four very attractive and scantily Clad Arab giggling and opus la ing among themselves to a better look at the what is this someone a harem the frantic Gib Berish of the women accompanied by eloquent hand motions is variously interpreted by 10 different someone throws a cigarette Over a but the building being too far it Falls Short of women in the but the noise of the groups brings an arabian armed with a Long who takes his place at the window and yells at the lets get the hell out of Here before that guard starts an inter National someone says and Joe pilots the away from the half an hour later the weather men pass the front the building where they had spied the Hafen in the Center of in letters As big As balloon it police station1 in eng French and in tune with the antics announces its final after 73 with the paper growing from the Small mimeographed Sheet on March 27th 1044 to the last i8suet a printed the books Are How marked account editor Jack Silverman pens a firewall note observing the significance of the first and last number one indicated that Eldouina had become a self integral unit and the Tunis base was begin Ning to Jook like it does with Rainbow projects and the rest Silverman Hopes that by the time the Guys receive this last Issue they will be elsewhere antics recounts the Story of the base built upon the rubble of the nazi Luftwaffe in Eldouina in the Early Days of 1943 was the principal target of Allied it being one of the most important air links Between Germany an North Afri the base was activated in de Cember on the cold windswept Field there remained scarred and battered skeletons of buildings greeted the first through the bitter cold of that Winter the Pio neers struggled and stuck it that their work and efforts finally materialized in a base called by Floyd one time base the ran Dolph Field of North find their Home burned the japanese american parents of four army one of whom was killed in action and two others decorated for returned to the coast last week to find their modest ranch Home burned to the the and Kay re ported the fire and asked that an investigation be the Wolf hmm by Sansone just what have you been telling your friends about me