Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Fold Aiwaz of a Jjo it j a a Tjw i a m. Or it by the stars and stripes wednesday july 4, 1945 life Liberty. And a hard Blue Pencil Jefferson s draft of declaration often revised lei8er Sia writer Wiesbaden july 3-approximately 1,000 cases of fraternization i very reported to the 12th army coup  Lan month. 1t&it was three times the number of cases reported for april but i  one tenth Otone Par cent of the million plus men a a a or group personnel of Quot a it Leefe in Bdl a str Psi r pc  explained Towt it reported to the Provost marshal did a Root to elude ease handled by incl Lett a we Ary  fun #  i due pot / out pah t com thobe Provost marshal an soldiers in the remarked that a re violations Are Quot not fully of the actual number of pm a a a p y the associated press a list of literature a most successful collaborations probably would ignore the american declaration of Independence a document usually regarded As a Brik a ant one Man Job by Thomas Jefferson. Tet in a Broad sense he waa it Only one of its authors writing in an upstairs parlor of a Young German bricklayers Bouse in Philadelphia Jefferson did put Down in a firm Clear hand on big sheets of Fine dutch paper the revolutionary sen to Mente to americans Honor to Day with fire crackers speeches i parades and Hunting. Three fold increase in re Jef tip ted fraternization was attributed to the changeover from combat to a Quot Static situation with far More time available to soldiers. Officers asserted that a a no a a considered from the standpoint of not allowing to mix openly with Ger on terms of social Equality and Friendship is  a Quot courteous but impersonal Quot of violations res Only one umber of reported and roughly equal of awol in the number on a. A the discussions kept impersonal and a a courteous but  however there can be Quot no close intimate association no Friendly manner no 8jcd.il3.2xl the German is not one of us. Lie must be kept in his  fraternization with Allied Quot displaced persons is allowed How ver and to make it easier for soldiers to recognise them plans Are under Way to give Dps a distinctive Mark ing such As an armband their National colors. With a but the collaboration that produced the Quot great apologia of the american revolution Quot had begun Keg before that says Julian p. Boyd librarian of Princeton University in a Book the declaration of Independence the evolution of the text As shown in facsimiles of various drafts by its author Thomas Jefferson Quot Princeton University press. Boyd says it began with the people Quot the idea that men were born equal that they were possessed of certain inherent and unalienable rights that these right included life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness that it was the duty of the government to protect and preserve these rights that the government which did not do so could be abolished this was an idea familiar almost every american subject of George in to the epochal year pm one of five Jefferson was one of a committee of five which the Continental Congress appointed june 11, 1774, to draft a statement justifying the insurgent colonies separation from a great Britain. According to John Adams who was also on that committee the we hold these truths. Jefferson a first draft of the declaration in his own hand with a Benges made after he showed it to John Adams and Benjamin Franklin note How the truths that for years have been a a self evident were in the beginning a a sacred and  note too that a a life Liberty end the Pursuit of happiness Quot survived Ell the later editing. Job fell to Jefferson because in Congress Quot writings of his were handed about remarkable for their Peculiar Felicity of  turned neither to books Labouring Over the composition from june 11 to june 28, As Jefferson told Madison 47 years later he a turned neither to Book nor. Pamphlet while writing he had been accused of copying the declaration from the writings of the political philosopher Locke. But he never denied John Adams statement that the committee of five Quot had several meetings in which were proposed the articles of which the declaration Mas to  he Sis acknowledged textual revisions suggested by Adams and by Benjamin Franklin another member of the committee v. Even when the committee got to see Jefferson a work it was no longer entirely his own. At least two consultations with Adams and perhaps one with Franklin had resulted by Boyds count in 16 alterations for the most part a sharpening of Jefferson a diction. Boyd says one such change the substitution of a a self evident for a a sacred and undeniable a in the phrase a we hold these truths to be self evident a has been attributed Quot both to Franklin and to  necessary to Advance Jefferson began this Quot when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to Advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained Quot but the committee altered that sentence to what is now familiar Quot when. It becomes necessary for a people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. Quot in All 31 changes were made before the declaration was at last placed before its editor a the Continental Congress. Was trifling Quot what the members of the committee did to the draft was trifling compared to the emasculation it suffered at the hands of Congress a Boyd says. Jefferson a text went under the Blue Pencil on july 2, and stayed there july 3 and july 4, a a while Jefferson with a author s sensitive eyes suffered at the merciless objectivity with which the legislators regarded his work. Thirty nine More changes were made most of them deletions of words or passages including a condemnation of the slave Trade. 6j in Saar entry lion Don july 3 up a a daily the graph dispatch from Saar Bruecken. Reported six French civilians will appear before a us. Summary military court charged with conduct Quot prejudicial to the interests of Allied forces and pith illegally entering Saar territory. The men Are alleged members of a French organization which distributed political handbills printed in German among the population of the american occupied zone near the French Frontier. Last week it was said a French citizen was tried by a . Military court at Merzig for similar political agitation. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and fined. Keep pm chewing Goober men told Albany ga., july 3 ans a i who never saw a Goober grow Are chewing on peanuts today and the main concern of the Peanut planters is How to keep them chewing after the Walter a. Richards of Columbus president of the National Peanut Council told growers today that production has almost doubled in the last two years with 50 per cent of 1944 production of 2,500000 pounds going to the armed forces. Marshalls ask . Protection a ital Ian austrian rail link near Washington july 3 api major rail networks connecting Italy with Austria and Switzerland will be completed by the end of july the War department reported. Most of the rail lines in Northwestern Italy now Are i operation the statement said but tracks crossing the Italo French Border remain out. North of Verona 12,000 German railway troops Are repairing lines a Brenner pass. Washington july 3 ans natives of the Marshall islands japanese mandate before the War want to remain under . Control and Protection. Navy military government officials in the islands have received Majure Arne and aur atolls repetitions from marshallese on questing that the marshalls become a . Protectorate. One petition signed by 380 men and 455 women on Arne atoll said a a when this world War is Over we request As it is written below t. We ask the United states of America to look Over us. �?�2. And it should also keep our customs. �?�3. We want the United states As Long As we live on the  Jungle Wise yanks to to Supply work in Burma a a Paris july 3�?american troops in Burma henceforth will be charged with a Mission similar to that of the persian Gulf command in getting supplies Over the reopened Burma Stilwell Road to China it. Gen. Dan l Sultan said at a press conference. The general in route to Washington from new Delhi directed the Winter Campaign in Northern Burma and was commander of the India Burma theater until about two weeks ago. A sultans Mission in the far East was to reopen the Burma Road which he did Between october and May. His troops had to Hack their Way 800 Miles through Jungles in the Winter Campaign. Just what his new assignment would be he refused to say. Command varied he was High in Praise for the american trained chinese and the american Mars task Force who a a fought like Jungle  Sultan was in a Peculiar posit lion in India and Burma. He commanded All american troops in the theater and in addition was comm amp under in chief of two chinese armies one British division an american division the Mars task Force and the tenth of but for the chinese he would not Delegate his command. Quot they were under chinese generals a he said Quot who would take orders Only from  250,000. Leave Havre for . Dentists get commands Washington july 3 <an6> officers in the army dental corps will have the right to command within the medical department generally under. Legislation. Approved by president Truman. Be Havre july 3�?the number of troops embarked at be Havre in the redeployment program has passed the Quarter million Mark col. Thomas j. Weed port commander. Announced. The colonel added that 1,500,000 More troops Are scheduled to leave from this port for the u 8 in the next six months. Pm escape scare bared Paris july 3�?fear of a simultaneous break by nearly 300,000 German pcs caused an Alert at All 24 major prisoner Camps in the Eto from Christmas eve until new years during the ardennes counteroffensive. Facts on the prisoner scare were lifted from a a secret files by Provost marshals officers and by officials at Camps where knives food maps and i clothing were discovered. In dec. 23, when von Rund Stedt a counter offensive threatened Liege and the siege of Bastogne was at its height All base Section commanders were ordered to Quot insure positive Security in All prisoners of War  in Normandy base Section machine gun nests were immediately set up up to cover All possible approaches to the four enclosures. On Christmas eve american and French guards walked their posts in a High state of excitement frequently firing at shadows and unexplained noises. The precautions paid off in enclosure no. 20, where proof of a planned break was discovered. It. Gen. Dan i. Sultan for chinese Praise Brereton gets command Washington july 3 ans a it. Gen. Lewis h Brereton has assumed command of the third of with Headquarters in Tampa fla., the War department announced. Brereton recently returned from three years service in the Middle East and Eto. His most recent assignment was command of the first Allied airborne army. Sea vet Back in Pacific War san Francisco july 3 ans a her turrets bristling with guns reclaimed from two battleships that went Down at Pearl Harbor the battleship Pennsylvania 29-year-old Veteran of two wars is Back in action in the Pacific after a three month overhaul. Twenty guns salvaged from the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada were added to the Pennsylvania a armament