The White Falcon - 13.03.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
OJR FO\Zl - ALWAYS ALERT
Published by and for the American Forces, under the super-
vision of G-2 Section. Managing Editor, T/3G. Gene Graff; Asso-
ciate Editor, T/5G. Joseph T. Koren; Art Editor, T/4G. Harrison
Standley; Wire Editor, Pvt. Orlando Aguero; Circulation Manager,
Pfc. Anthony J. Schulte. All photographs are by the U.S. Army
Signal Corps unless otherwise credited.
This paper has been passed by Censor and may be mailed
home for one cent.
Naturalization
Millions of Americans have fought and many have
died to preserve the privileges which it offers. Emi-
grants by the thousands, uplifted by the prospect of
life in a brave new world offering equal opportunity
to all, have traveled across the seas to avail themselves
of its benefits. Today, while they are fulfilling its most
exacting obligation, thousands of American servicemen
overseas who are alien nationals are being offered Ame-
rican citizenship by a short-cut process.
It is hardly credible that men eligible for naturaliza-
tion under this scheme would pass the opportunity by.
But a few examples of the importance of being a citi-
zen by naturalization ought to clinch the case for them
as well as serve to remind those of us who are citi-
zens by birth of the benefits we enjoy.
The most cherished privilege of democracy, that of
freely expressing by secret ballot one’s choice for elec-
tive office, is open only to citizens. Civil service jobs,
federal, and in many cases state and municipal, may
only be held by citizens. Even private employers are
coming to demand citizenship as one of the qualifica-
tions of their employees. Foreign travel, a complicated
process for an alien, is greatly facilitated for American
citizens.
While the national government doesn’t require citi-
zenship for payment of social security benefits, many
states do. After this war many men will want to bring
their relatives or wives to America. This procedure
will be a relatively simple one for citizens through'
the relaxation of many restrictions on entry other-
wise applicable.
And, finally, Axis nationals or citizens who are fight-
ing with U.S. armed forces in event of capture by the
enemy may reasonably be denied treatment as prison-
ers of war under international law and summarily
executed as traitors to the country of their birth.
jAh Inquudny.
Oepokteh
(Did you want to be a fire-
man or a baseball player or a
soldier when you were 12 years
old? Well, here’s what four mem-
bers of the Command thought
they’d choose ’way back when:)
Like most boys that age, Pvt.
Julius Hering, 31,
Coast Artillery,
thought baseball
was the finest
field. And he al-
most fulfilled his
hope because as
CIO labor orga-
nizer in, the
Dodge plant at
Detroit, Mich., he managed the
company’s baseball team.
“Life is like the wind, here
today and gone
tomorrow, so I
never wanted to
he anything
particular,” is
the philosophic-
al statement of
Pvt. Malcolm .1.
Boyer, 28. Boyer
hung his hat at
Granite City, Ill., before Uncle
Sam-gave him a uniform.
LI. Katharine Schlegel, ANC,
declared that
ler childhood
unbition was to
)e a business se-
n-etary. She
worked in the
obstetrics dept,
of the Philadel-
phia Lying-In
Hospital, where
such famous persons as Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Gen. MacArthur
and Ann Sheridan were born.
She’s a native of West Chester,
Pa.
“I never gave it much thought,
hut my choice
probably would
have been to
raise chickens
and hogs,” as-
serted farmer-
turned-soldier
Pvt. Kerrnit Fer-
guson, 23, In-
fantry. He work-
ed on his father’s farm at Rock-
house, Ky., before the Army
beckoned.
CHAPLAIN’S CHALLENGE
Perhaps the curse of soli-
tude is the fear which it pro-
duces. When one meets him-
self too much alone, without
energy and movement, there
is a tendency to “think.” All
pretence, all sham, is drop-
ped. We face the inquisition
of our own conscience; see
ourselves as we actually exist
in nature and not as we are
depicted to others. We recoil
from solitude because it ex-
poses us to ourselves. The
writer Locke never spoke tru-
er words than when he said:
“A conscience is ten times
more troublesome than a tem-
perament.”
“South Sea Sunset.”
They Say....
PAUL SCHUBERT.—The re-
cent bombings of Germany and
German-occupied Europe have
been a striking demonstration
of the technical progress of aeri-
al warfare. To bomb Berlin,
British planes must fly several
times as far as German planes
flew in the 1940 blitz against
London. Yet in a concentrated
thirty-minute bombing British
planes were able to dump twice
the bomb tonnage on Berlin that
German planes were able to
drop on London in a ten-hour
period in the Battle of Britain.
The 1940 blitz on London and
other British cities was essen-
tial t>- a war of nerves. The
whole nature of the German at-
tack implied the belief that the
British people would crack und-
er loss, strain and horror and
since the Germans rarely hit
targets of military value they
didn’t even get the benefit of
reduced British war production.
Germany’s air attack was bad-
ly conceived and it failed. The
present British bombing of Ger-
man objectives isn’t a war of
nerves. It is a very carefully cal-
culated method of onslaught on
German production and war
transportation. It is pointed
particularly at German U-boat
production and operation. The
bomb tonnages dropped are bas-
ed on experiment and experience
and are intended to do irrepar-
able damage—what isn’t ac-
complished in one visit is made
good in follow-up bombings.
This pattern bombing guarantees
military -results.
GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT.
—There are persistent rumors
that the new commander in chief
of the German Navy, Admiral
Karl Doenitz, is going to use his
surface ships much more aggres-
sively in operations against Un-
ited Nations convoys in the At-
lantic. If this indeed is his pur*
pose, he has a number of ships
at his disposal which might pres-
ent the British and American
navies a formidable problem.
If the Germans were to send
out surface ships into the con-
voy lanes they would have at
least a sporting chance of doing
a tremendous amount yf damage
before they could bp rounded
up. Yet in the end, if they Per"
sisted in their efforts, their de-
struction would be certain and
Ibis is the consideration Doen-
itz must have in his mind as
he weighs his decision. lie must
balance an estimate of the pos-
sible damage (hat pould be done
against our shipping during a
comparatively brief time against
the present advantage Germany
is deriving from the possession
of a “fleet in being.”
While the German surface-
fleet remains as it now is in a
position of readiness, at Nor-
wegian bases, it imposes severe
naval handicaps on the Allies.-
It not -only demands the con-
tinued presence in the North At-
lantic of sizeable portions of the
Anglo-American fleets, but com-
pels us to make each movement
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In a cafe, loosen your
belt—not your tongue!