Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote D Azur Page 2the stars and stripes Friday May 4, 1945 22jk# Al allies Advance on i Araliah. With their rightful Powers of poli f id in s tical censorship and coercion the re there Are a lot of Guys in this i by causing the loss of millions of and other outfits who have slaved bees and great property damage is 32 Nood months of their life away hereby sentenced to an indefinite on this Side of the Atlantic build period of reparation during which % a _ i _ my v a i a a 411 a Ute h t a my the army docks roads railroads and Bridges of the highest priority in record time and who have become skilled at their occupations but who Are still pfc because the to ratings have been filled now time mines injuries and the infantry draft have her own Economy will be used to Salvage that of her pilfered neighbors t/5, engr. Avn. In. An outfit like mine covers a lot of territory in its travels a six countries so far in the Eto. I think even the most hardened sol Ruo til v a j a Toji j j i in in a in. In in v begun to take toll of the old oui \ Jer a admit that Europe has fit taking away some of Home very Beautiful scenery and ratings but can the remaining some very neat and Well kept roads faithful few who Are so Well now there is just As much Fine entitled to ratings get them no i scenery in that Homeland of ours. Why All ratings Are far Mort it you have to get behind the sign than absorbed by reinforcement Ards to see it. Gaudy advertise with ratings of t/5, Corporal ii ments for hotels pills Beer Etc. Aussie forces Lead drive to take Oil Fields san Francisco conference getting under Way sergeant and staff sergeant. It certainly would not tie fair to the reinforcements to reduce them m Grade. We Are bitterly opposed to that. They earned their ratings in their old outfits Aud through no fault of their own were injured and placed in an la. Outfit. Why can to the reinforcements de carried some Way that would not interfere with tile ratings that become available to the Long and faithful servant a sgt. F.t., engr Well clot lied nazis right now we Are on detached duty hiking care of displaced persons somewhere in Germany. After seeing the Well clothed and Well fed German civilians we think these people hould be forced to give Aid to help clothe and fed these unfortunate suffering liberated people. These refugees Aren t asking for this but we feel that such a contribution is due them after All the years of suffering the German people have forced upon Harold Boyer inf. Blot out the View. I for one am going Home with the belief that the american Motorist is being cheated out of his rightful Outlook on the grand american country that one thing i Learned in Europe. American highways May be wide and straight but they Are Messy and 4 James v. Swift 5th amid div. I Emily Post of More respect and Courtesy were shown by senior officers Coward their subordinates the morale and efficiency of our armed forces would increase. This is particularly True in the relationship Between commissioned and non commissioned officers. Frequent Public Chewings and threats of a a Busty tend to lower the efficiency of most non commissioned officers. Non coms being human Are frequently guilty of making mistakes but these should be corrected and admonition Given in private. Senior commissioned officers Are even More unethical in their attitude toward Junior commissioned officers. The average pm finds it difficult to maintain respect for an officer who shakes trembles and double times when brass comes around. About the Only uninhibited persons around at these visits Are the privates who done to give a Damn about anything. The tragedy of the situation is that some brass hats actually believe they arc the colourful figures that some zealous reporter has painted rather than the Short tempered. Neurotic frustrated asinine old Dods that they actually Cpl. . Brown 777 a. Sight Light i am in the mortar Section of an infantry outfit and have been wondering for quite a while if a Small Light could be put in a 60mm. Sight such As the 4.2 mortar sight has. We do a tot of night firing and it would save time and be More accurate if there was a Light in the sight and a Luminous spot on the j. Picard inf. Ordnance he. States. A sight instrument m37. Which is the newest out for mortar usage and which is just coming into this theater incorporates your suggestion. This Bas two lights one for the Collimator and one Finger Light to illuminate the level vials and a Roo sky Polesky a a Belgique a a dutch a they All shout their identity As we pass. Anxious that we should not mistake them for germans. We see others in huge flocks being processed by the military government. Arid on the Road like gypsies some walking and carrying on their backs their few belongings others sleeping in Fields. Some with carts horses or German vehicles. Where Are they going these liberated slave labourers these misplaced people whose Homes families and Hopes in life have been destroyed what Are they living on As they move the military government is handling them but the Job seems to be too big it would seem that the manner in which these people Are handled and fitted Back into Normal lives again has More bearing on future world Security than the crossing of any six Rivers. Its a problem for the United nations just As big As the defeat of Germany. Economic conditions hazardous and unstable in Germany after world War i created the stuff from which Hitler was made. Are future Manila May 3 ans a Gen. Macarthur Campaign to recover the Rich dutch East indies swept quickly toward Tarakan a air fled and the town of Linguas today from beachhead easily established tuesday on the Oil depot Island just off northeastern Borneo. Australian troops aided by a few dutch indonesian units established two beachhead on tar akan after the . Seventh Fleet augmented by australian cruisers and destroyers and american. Dutch and australian aircraft had bombed and shelled the Island s Oil storage tanks intermittently for four Day a thick Black smoke covered the Southern beaches. Laps surprised again Macarthur communique which confirmed earlier reports of the invasion said the japanese again were taken by Surprise and failed to offer any organized resistance. Landing parties met Only scattered Small arms fire he said. Declaring that the operation virtually had severed japanese holdings to the South Macarthur said an Allied base on Tarakan would Complete a Chain of airfields which would enable the allies to strike at enemy forces anywhere in the Southwest Pacific. Japs richest prize the Landing on Tarakan marked the beginning of an attempt to recover the richest prize seized by the japanese in their victorious southward March in 1942. Tarakan itself was a producer of exceptionally pure Oil but the dutch installations a few Days before they capitulated. Americans on Mindanao Island in the Southern Philippines meanwhile appeared about to take the port of Davao Center of the islands pre War japanese settlement after a six mile Advance to the Western Edge of the City. B29s blast Kyushu airfields 13thtime Edward r. Stettinius jr., Secretary of state addresses delegates from the Rostrum in introducing president Truman a radio speech Guam May 3 ans a about too super forts swooping in at medium height in Daylight attacked airfields on Kyushu Island today for the 13th time in five weeks. The Marianas based b29s hit six airfields which have been sending planes against . Naval forces at Okinawa 325 Miles South of the southernmost Jap Home Island. Bombardier dropped their explosives visually and reported Good results. Here s a look info machinery i hat makes Trisco Parley lick Hillers to Spring from a dozen or More nations after the big Job of horse laugh after having talked it Over with other patients we came to the conclusion that the i that was bitten by the horse is entitled to get the purple heart. Alter All the horse was German. In be seen Guys get purple hearts for less than that and if he wants it that bad Why not give it to him a Cpl. Werner t. Simon Hosp. Plant. # defeating Germany has been completed?�?2/lt. Burnell held 311th inf. A boat piracy expected Ottawa May 3 Reuter a pirate a boats manned by ardent nazis with nothing to win by returning to their prostrate Homeland will continue to operate in the Atlantic tor some time after hostilities Canadian naval officials believe. Her nor to Sot. Vick. A men by William r. Spear Hie Start and stripes . Bureau new York May 3.�?the machinery of the unit nations Security conference at san Francisco is something like the machinery of an army with its i g2, 03 and 04. The army s sections of personnel intelligence operations and supp do their work separately when they All Are put together the army Rolls. The conference has four commis Sions each with a Job to do when out a problem assigned to it it Wil it Over to the commission they All Are put together the con turn a Ference creates a league designed to when the commission Aas worked prevent future wars. I out All problems on the subject air each of these four commissions signed to it it will turn it Over to will be composed of certain Dele the full conference. When the Cor Gates and will have a specific Job j Ference has worked out All the sub to do. When a commission finally jets on the Agenda Vrzich is disapproves a plan specifically assign Pio Matic language for docket then de to it it will submit that plan a a j to the entire conference in a plenary signs of the time i should like to see when the shooting and shouting Are Over of course a placard placed in every District of the conquered lands with the issues As we see them written i lie recoil. It might read like this a this nation of individuals having been found guilty of criminal negligence in that they did of their own free will invest a minority the stars and stripes parts edition printed a Ute new von Herald i Ioune Plant Ai amp be de Bern Paris tor toe . Armed forces under auspices of tit my information a of education division. Tousa Sci. Sly sees vow 41-49 other editions London. Nice stung Stadt. Germany new fori office 05 amp 42iio St. Content passed of the o a army Ana Navy censor. Entered As second est matter. March 16. 1943. At the Post entice new York n y., under he aet of March i 1978 vet. To no. Tai session which is diplomatic language for full dress meeting. The four commissions Are 1. The commission on general provisions. It will draft general rules for the league such As what its purpose should be who can be a member Etc. 2. The commission on general Assembly. This body will draft rules for the Assembly which is one Branch of the proposed Security league and would be its guiding body. 3. The commission on the Security Council. The Council if another part of the proposed Security organization and will be the body that decides whether and How the league should use Force against any aggressor. 4. The commission on judicial the conferences work v in be done. Represent . Groups in addition to these numerous committees working for the four commissions there Are also other committees working for the conference itself just Tike committees at elks or legion conventions. One of these is the credentials committee which sees to it that Only official delegates Are admitted to the floor of the conference another is the steering committee which makes the rules and arrangements for running the conference. Many vet groups present now done to go away there s More. In addition to its experts the . Delegation has some 40 consultants and 80 associate consultants who have been Given Semi official status by the state department this in organization. This unit will try came about when representatives to figure out How to set up a world court to Settle disputes among nations in a Legal manner. Staffs of experts brought along now the delegates who will be members of these commissions cannot possibly be expert in All details of All kinds of groups such As veterans Farmers labor business Etc., sought a voice in the conference and wanted to Send delegations to san Francisco. To prevent chaos and the overtaking of railroads and hotels hip bound to ame a they brought state with them stalls of experts on Rich �40 Ormin carom i i Ding straight to my co and demand a Battle amp aces my Good conduct ribbon things As banking economics Law Etc. Etc. Each commission will have More than one problem to solve and will need expert help on each so about a dozen committees will be established to work under and for each commission. Delegates May work on these committees or May assign some of their experts to them the committees probably will be composed mostly of experts when a committee has worked Grange a wan is Che american legion a and told them to appoint Ane member each As consultant and two others As associate consultants. It would take too Long to list All such organization represented at the conference but those representing veterans Are the american legion the american veterans committee disabled american veterans of the work War and veterans of foreign wars of the to a
