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THE WHITE FALCON
OUR FORCES - 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.
The Path Is Rough
.One of the most dangerous manifestations of the tradi-
tional American loathing of war as an instrument of
international policy is the current wishful thinking that
Germany will collapse suddenly and completely as a
result of defeats in Africa, on the Russian front, or be-
cause of concentrated bombing from the air of Ger-
man industry.
The wish has also been father to the thought in the
case of those who have seen in stories of strife between
the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party an imminent break-
down in the German military machine and will to re-
sist. Still others nurture tlie belief that the overwhelm-
ing mass of the German people are fed up with the
war and that a revolution overthrowing Hitler and his
stooges might pave the way for a relatively bloodless
victory.
Happily, the “unconditional surrender” terms of the
Casablanca Conference reassure us that United Nations
leaders are not deluded by these flights of imagina-
tion. Victory over Germany must come “the hard way.”
There will be “blood bath^” in profusion as the United
Nations forces advance step by step into the German-
occupied territories and across the German borders into
the very heart of Berlin.
Not until our troops march down Unter Den Linden
in a Germany brought to its knees by annihilation of
its misguided troops and systematic destruction of farms,
factories and public works will the world he guarante-
ed against a resurgence of the despised Prussian mili-
tarism which has plunged the world into two cataclysmic j
struggles within a quarter century. i
That Germany must he crushed finally and comple-
tely is evident from its post-Versailles hislory. At the
time the armistice was signed in 1918, millions of Ger-
man soldiers felt that they had been slabbed in the
back by the workers on the home front and that they
could have gone on to victory in 1919. Iiardly before
the ink was dry on the treaty ending the war, German
Junkers, industrialists, generals and even the republi-
can leaders were planning to evade its terms step by
step.
Proving themselves no better qualified for democratic
government than the Fiji Islanders, the German people
handed the reins of their governmnt hack to the jingo-
istic military clique in a matter of months after renounc-
ing the Kaiser. Private armies numbering in the mil-
lions and dedicated to scrapping the Treaty of Versa-
illes flourished and indeed were encouraged by a pup-
pet republican government which actually ruled by mili-
tary fiat.
Nothing could be further from the truth than that
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are solely responsible
for this war. It is a war that the vast mass of the Ger-
man people wanted and have prepared for since 1918.
There’s no distinction between the Nazis and the Ger-
man people. One is merely the symbol and embodi-
ment of the ideology of the other.
There is no room for sentiment in this war. We must
beat Germany on the battlefields and on the home-
front so decisively that every man, woman and child
in that country becomes firmly convinced that Ger-
many must abandon forever its anachronistic “might
it right” philosophy or cease to exist as a nation.

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BACKBONE OF THE NEW ORDER IN EUROPE.
(By Fitzpatrick in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
They Say....
7A& lnquLhiM.%.
Eepo-fitah.
(What is the first thing you
are going to do after you get
home? This was the question The
Inquiring Reporter asked this
week. Here are the answers:)
“First I am going to take a
good rest, then
go back to my
old job of Surg-
ical Supervisor
and wait for leap
year,” laughed
1st Lt. Genevi-
eve G. Thorpe.
A native of
Clarksburg, W.
Va., Miss Thorpe is a member of
the local Army Nurse Corps.
Pvt. Norman Burg, Signalman
from New York
City, said, “I’ll
have to convince
myself that I am
home, and see
what has chang-
ed, and then I’ll
probably go to
college.” Burg is
23.
“1 want to see my mother as
soon as I can
and then just
pick up where I
left off,” replied
lorp. Schilling,
23-year-old mem-
ber of the Air
Corps. Max hails
from the Bronx
in New York.
Member of the Merchant Mar-
ine, James Mc-
Loughlin said,
“Try to get back
my old job as
s u p e ri n t e nd-
e n t of apart-
ment houses and
settle down.”
McLoughlin is 45
years old and is
a fireman on his ship. His home
is in Brooklyn, N.Y.
CHAPLAIN’S CHALLENGE
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“What great conflict I have.”
Col. 2:1.
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It is said that man “can
adapt himself to any constant
circumstance.” The overseas
soldier is a classic example
of this cultivation of mind
over matter. A guest in a
strange land, removed from
his customary pleasures, he
soon learns he must provide
entertainment out of his own
resources or disrupt internal-
ly. Under such living condi-
tions, the soldier whd can
maintain consistently a per-
fect balance—who can pre-
vent a sense of ijytor conflict
—proves agais that every-
thing is only a matter pf will.
Harry Hershfield, clown of
“Can You Top This?” claims that
Italy is getting out a new issue
of stamps. It seems, so Hersh-
field says, they had a stamp with
J the picture of Hitler and Musso-
i lini, and people were spitting on
the wrong side of the stamp!
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Ann Thomas, the eternal secre-
tary of radio and the Broadway
stage, has a new GI title, present-
ed to her by several hundred
soldiers. They voted her “The
Secretary We Would Rather
Dance With Than Any.”
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Bob Hope says he has new
woman trouble. Met a girl in a
revolving door last week and has
been going around with her ever
since. Bob says it was love at
first sight, but he changed his
mind—he took another look.
•
Jack Benny has long used the
faces the acid test. He’s slated
to bring his radio troupe to St.
Joseph (Mo.) for an all-soldier
audience.
•
Ralph Edwards seems to have
started a habit of making his
‘consequences” blessings in dis-
guise. Last week a Pvt. Barney
Malone, whose wife is expecting
a baby, performed on the “Truth
or Consequences” show and re-
ceived a complete layette, plus
a crib, plus a high chair, as his
prize.
•
Lou Costello’s description of
his recent visit to the White
House: “I walked up the steps,
rang the front door bell, the door
opened, and, boy, was I surpris-
ed. Eleanor was home.”
•
“We, the People” recently turn-
ed up a woman who holds the
strangest job of all. She’s 21-
year-old Gale Volchok, who
teaches Judo to American soldi-
vaudevillian gag, “But they sure
loved me in St. Joe.” Now he'ers.