The White Falcon - 07.10.1944, Page 2
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THE WHITE FALCON
OUR FORCES — ALWAYS ALERT
Published by and for the American Forces in lcsiand, under
the supervision ol Special Service Section, Iceland Base Com-
mand. All photographs are by the U-S. Army Signal Corps un-
less otherwise credited. THE WHITE FALCON receives material
supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, War Dept.
This paper has been passed by the oensor and may be mailed
home for one-and-one-half cents.
THE WHITE FALCON is written and edited by enlisted-man
personnel.
IBC Special Service Officer . .Lt. Col. Lee F. Giistrap.
Supervising Officer ..........Lt. David Zink off.
Managing Editor ..............Sgt. John Moran
Associate Editor .............Sgt. J. Gordon Farrell
Troop News Editor ............CpI. Robert Hill
Staff Reporter ...............Pvt. E. C. Gray
Multilith Operator ........... S/Sgt. N. H. Hoppel
—PEACE PUS
countries of whatever
industrial machinery
these nations want, and
the destruction of the
remainder.
2. The permanent clo-
sing of whatever mines
remain in the postwar
German state.
3. The cession of the
Saar and western German
industrial areas to
France and the eastern
areas to Poland.
4. The dissolution of
large German land hold-
ings to small farms.
b. The withholding of
assistance - economic
or otherwise - to the
!German people, forcing
I them to make their own
way.
6. The prolonged con-
trol of Germany hy an
Allied military comm-
ission.
7. Ho outright repar-'
stions, since Germany
would be an agricultur-
al state with little or
no commerce.
Sec. Morgenthau fur-
ther recommends that
Allied administrators
be instructed to take
no measures to recon-
struct any part of Ger-
many or to supply the
German people with
food or clothing*
Gestapo Murders
Parisians In
French Capital
A French policeman,
hi 8 wife and another
woman were murdered in
Paris last week by sev-
en members of the Ges-
tapo still at large
within the oity.
The polieeman had
captured several Ger-
mans during the French
uprising before Paris
was liberated. In re-
taliation, the Gestapo
agents entered the
Frenchman's home, lined
the three people up
against a wall and tur-
ned their tommy guns on
them.
CHOVAN* S SLIDES -
MARIA LONTEZ FIIll
AT FIELOHOUSE SUNDAY
Teo 6 Luther Chovan
'will present his coll-
ection of Kodaehromes
on Iceland at the And-
rews Fieldhcuse tomorr-
ow evening at 200C
hours.
Patrio Knowles and
Maria kontez are starr-
ed in "Mystery of Marie
Roget" — film feature
of the evening.
The FOTO-NOTE this week focuses on Cpl.
David J. Mackey, postal clerk at Camp Monmouth.
This is his SECOND war. June 6,
1917, found him, in the U. S.
Navy, a Coxswain aboard the D.
S. S. Aroostook, a minesweeper
ploughing the North Sea between
Scotland and Norway. Dave saw
plenty of action in that war,
his ship being engaged in four
major sea battles—being award-
ed two of the highly coveted Gold Star awards
for the bagging of two German submarines. He
came out of that war in 1919 as a Boatswain's
Mate. In August 1942, he entered his second
war. Between wars Cpl. Mackey was a rural mail
carrier and also did some sleuthing for the
Police Department in Omaha, his home. After
this war he thinks he may try something else,
maybe a email busineaa of his own.
If you have not heard about your message
broadcasts over Pappy Dexter's program, don't
jive up hope....he is swamped with requests
from all over the world....But he should get
-ound to us soon....How long has it been since
! "ou have seen a long forgotten "A" gasoline
ration coupon?....! certain car dashes around
Reykjavik with one on it...And that isn't all-
it alee has a New lork license plate on it,
partially covered by a local one, it is true,
but an American cue just the same.
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01 OPINION
__IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION i "WHAT SHOULD WE
DO WITH A DEFEATED GERMANY?"
EDITOR, WHITE FALCON:
There cam be no denying that this is going to be a
highly important and difficult problem.
The idea of national annihilation is, of course, out
of the question - it being totally inhuman and imposs-
ible. The argument that the Nazis themselves tried
that on smaller nations, and therefore deserve a "dose
of their own medicine," is weak because that is the
thing for whioh we are fighting to rid the world. And
if we were to attempt it, we would be lowering oursel-
ves to the same barbaric standard. Remember the old
axiom - "Two 'wrongs' do not make a 'right.'"
What then should we do?
defeat what the Nazi propagandists have so well in-
stilled in the average German mind. This will take not
merely words, but actual example on our part. They
will have to see with their own eyes, that tfce Yanks
are not as grotesque as they had been led to believe
and that democracy does work suocessfv" ly.
Now, what of the political and economic problems in-
volved? Logioally, for sn indefinite period, a govern-
ment made up of representatives of the Allied nat-
ions would have tc pt;<-ail. This would be during the
"turn-over" period - Iron Naziism to a government of
the people's choosing "’he length of time it would
take for this trens: on would be determined by the
Allied go-ernmeat?«
From here on, and inaeimitely, all countries would
be "kept in line" by an in+ irnational -rani cation.
—Pvt. Clyde K. Peters, Engineers.
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For the past ten years or more. Dr. Goebbels has
been filling the minds of the German public with dis-
torted "facts" about the Arnerioan peoplo, American
democracy and the Amerioan standard of living. He has
backed up these lies with authentic piotures, showing
only the poor and wioked side of life in America. Be-
cause of all of this false propaganda, it is little
wonder that most of the people in Germany think them-
selves so much better than, and even despise, Ameri-
cans.
—IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION i ‘'DO YOU THINK
THAT U.S, ENLISTED MEN SHOULD BE REQUIRED
TO SALUTE CAPTURED GERMAN OFFICERS?"
EDITOR, WHITE FALCON :
If and whan saluting enemy officers is going to be
sanctioned by the War Department, I, for one, shall be
Court Martialed for insubordination and nonrespeot to
Therefore, after the defeat of the German military £
machine, in order to establish a peaceful-minded Ger- an enemy officer and of aotlons unbecoming an Amerioan
many, and consequently take a long strido toward insu- Soldier.
ring a lasting peace with that nation, we will have to —Pvt. Lad J. Soazi. Air Coma.
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