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Publication: Southern France Stars and Stripes Sunday, July 22, 1945

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   Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                July i94s is the conferences 4 l 13 so f Vuk r turned its Scarling found that the armed forces More it Taeed emphasis on spend m understand Ujj Jonly about 15 hours on actual red Back to i be said that service classes generally were opened in t teacher training More careful and i this time Tea Emre More closely i a result an Guji Ortag praised the aptitude test de Jay tue armed forces for classifying in Riding students into Fields for which Are he said that if these tests Lila a device released for Public there would be it of the instances student maladjustment the rest of As Flash contributed to juvenile Delin wicked he credited the armed forces with were  developed Job analysis so Well As to aim Nase obsolete or nonessential Illo bypassed like hell Becas James Caesar who has lived up to ways of Middle name with Many a Conquest in and High music was finding the National to hear  Camp at a tougher is so impress jut to crack than the big recording com that he whom he had humbled after a nations three years i Siha Ted musicians Union Czar Petrillo Tessor of Matte med the Camps 10 to 18yearold training indents were nonprofessional and accompanied to halt their weekly Abc Broad pals and Joseph Edgar Interlochen tour of 25  a payer of Union dues for 36 the Eastern switched the concerts to Michigan Silversity  to study  for the Petrillo later con the idea of putting Interlochen on his unfair list and threatening the Camps instructors with Union imperturbable Maddy countered by hiring col lege teachers and composers who were our Side Union were going on with our said he calmly As he opened the Camps july session on Europe defendant Petain last joyous sounds of the Bastille Day Celebration in Paris slipped away in a swirl of hot summer the the the measured playing of military bands ended and parisians Happy though then the weather suddenly turned Cool for a Day dark Clouds appeared Over the Flat roofs of pans the Carefree spirit of the Frenchman was supplanted by a feeling of dead seriousness and he remembered next week the trial of Lemarechal would it was significant that the treason trial of the Man whom Many held As an enemy of French Liberty should come on the heels of the first open Celebration in five years of the nations great National Bastille Day this year symbolized All the Freedom frenchmen had lost during mar Shal potato Vichy the trial of the 86yearold marshal was expected to yield two weeks of the most sensational testimony to be aired in a French 5 of Franco to Amdi was a break for was get Aid to the in Early november the Loy Aingie weapons Madrid was saved from Francos ferocious if 1936 there was a turn to the moors mainly by russian planes to both began giving direct military these volunteers included two International one composed of Ita German and other and the Abraham Lincoln made up of Amer first including Many to take the Field against the Axis in this War fought in that Many of them Are still to buried after they fell at where they Defeated the italians at during the great loyalist counteroffensive to the Winter of or along the bloody Ebro River the next sum the loyalists Neid As u of a Miracle in a Madrid ravaged by disease and the fifth but in the rest of the country Franco was through the dreary months of the germans and italians poured in supplies while the Britain and France debated Over technicalities in no intervention and the end came to the Winter of 193839 Francos triumphant entry into Barcelona on Jan signalled the Madrid gave up two months the Republic fight against overwhelming the first sacrifice to the the civil War brought a death list of terms Franco set up tribunals which executed Many More and threw others into concentration where a Large group still remains to spite of his periodical while Hitler was on top in the european Franco remained his firm but when the nazis began the Generalissimo made weak overtures to gain the favor of the newspapers in Britain and Amer warned against Franco and called his Spain the last fascist stronghold in Europe the Issue of cause so important mat last week Spain was one of the topics before the big three at Franco was on the not the United nations organization Nad pledged never to accept Russia and the were officially High Hatting realizing that his on party government had no future under his Franco was reportedly preparing to resign in favor of the a Man Euver that would allow the powerful interests that put him in Power to remain in Etc by the rest court since the Dreyfus which split French opinion in the the grand old Man of the army undoubtedly had adherents who Felt that his actions had been but ant Petain forces had expressed the belief that the conviction of the Vichy Leader was necessary to redeem Frances it was anticipated that prosecutor Andre Hornet would charge Petain with among other a sympathizer with totalitarian principles and having surrendered prematurely in 1940 to set up an authoritarian most damaging testimony May come from edouard former French who had accused the mar Shal of sabotaging National defense since Daladier was largely responsible for Frances during the five years before the War the exp remier the French army was to a Complete state of Petal was minister of War during that in his own marshal Petain is expected to reiterate his claim that he had requested an armistice with Germany As the Only Way to preserve France from a Fate like that met by the world War i hero also contended that he had favored the resistance movement to France and had used Pierre last Vichy to Calm the germans to support his claim that he two timed the germans and worked with the retains defense attorneys were expected to introduce into the evidence a treaty which they say he secretly negotiated with the British while he headed the Vichy govern prime minister Churchill said in a speech in commons last june 12 while such a treaty was once under negotiations were abandoned when it was Felt that the Vichy regime was too much under German duress to live up to its end of the projected agree unhappy Greece unhappiest of the nonet contented Small nations of Europe last week was Greece from the country with had suffered most under German occupation came disturbing reports of imprisonments even under the strongman govern ment of banker Kyriakos following British intervention in last win ters civil there were signs that the new rulers might use their positions to completely eliminate from any influence the disarmed members of the leftist Eam and the Allied organizations which had played the biggest roles in the greek resistance move ment and had taken arms against the Brit is sponsored last a Hal year after it Nad been forced by British arms to make peace with the government it the Eam Central committee appealed to the outside world to save its supporters from a regime of terror even More hideous than that of the Metaxas the committee declared that Greece was ruled by fascist remnants and Quisling and charged that members of the Elas liberation army had been Vic tortured humiliated and As Yugoslavia added charges that her Bor Der garrisons had been attacked by greek rightist forces and thousands of greeks were reported fleeing their tragic the embarrassed British seem at a loss to know what to do with the government they had helped to create pickup in Poland in where political animosities had seemed the bitterest in Europe Only a few weeks the situation last week took a turn for the thriving on recognition from the and the new govern though largely a soviet manufactured showed a desire to cooperate with almost All poles and even took to talking Back to the russians now and internal censorship on Telephone conversations and the mails was the ban on possessing radio sets capable of picking up foreign broadcasts was and Home army Mem Bers were granted free elections were promised in sine Yalta agree ment though the situation was it was by no Means Poland leaders said that she had lost Between six and seven Mil lion of her people under ruthless German and thousands of polish Dps Hung reluctant to accept invitations to come Home until they could determine what kind of a Poland awaited blackest report to come out of Poland concerned the alleged Large scale persecution of returning Poland had never been kind to her jewish perhaps the War had not changer harsh trait of the polish character still fighting the Campaign for the Philippines officially had general Douglas Mac Arthur said the fight to win Back the islands can be regarded As virtually la terms of High Japan had lost irrevocably the great stepping stones which had helped her to a temporary Empire in but american soldiers last week Stih stalked japs in the steaming mountains of the general Macarthur Vic tory communique had said some minor isolated action of a guerrilla nature in the practically uninhabited Mountain ranges May occasionally what this meant to infantrymen was More Long Days of probing through thick tropical scrambling up exhausting Heights to search of the hidden burning him out of caves and holes when he was it also meant for the tearing wounds and Swift death from japanese rifles and there were still an estimated scattered Jap anese soldiers to be dealt with in the we had already annihilated 23 enemy divisions with a numerically inferior Force 17 our losses had been comparatively including but More american Homes would receive fateful War department Tele Grams before the last Jap was killed or captured in the Philippines Farewell Clien Nault the army had retired him once As being physically unfit for further Bug Claire seeing into the used his civilian privileges to go to China and organize a shoestring air Force to fight the spreading japanese thus the world famous flying tigers were when the found itself at War with it was More than willing to Welcome Back into army ranks an officer who already was on the spot with a seasoned albeit Small band of Chennault was promoted to then major and became commander of the 14th a suddenly this the renowned air Leader differences existed the resignation came As a Surprise o America last but it was not entirely unexpected by far East the Gen eral sai9 that he was in poor health and the japanese Are beaten in the air in but press dispatches frown China suggested other causes one army official pointed out that Chennault Aad been operating for some years under difficult Supply difficulties and a continual Lack of sufficient flying newspapermen in China thought other considerations might have outweighed physical difficulties in the Senera decision to quit there were indications that in ennabut Aad been sidetracked by his and the incident recalled differences known to exist Between Chennault and him self once a victim of Overall policy exigencies when he was commander of ground forces in the Pacific those differences concerned the division of supplies going Over the rooted in arguments Over the relative importance of and ground another clash of opinion Nad been Over the chinese american composite Wing of the chinese air Chennault had con stantly resisted pressure to disband the whatever the cause of the generals Resi would not quickly forget the services of Chennault and the colourful Flovine tigers Nios Tan Bretton to  
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