The White Falcon - 24.02.1945, Blaðsíða 3

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“SUPER” MEALS
Soldiers sent to Army
redistribution centers for
rest and reassignment after
service overseas will soon
be enjoying “super” meals
especially prepared for
them by the QM Corps. The
new meals are said to be
richer than meals for troops
in the field or at regular
Army posts and announce-
ment is made that they will
be prepared by “experts.”
The service is one of many
“extras” being planned for
soldiers returning to the U.
S. for reassignment after
overseas duty. After a fur-
lough home, most of the GIs
will be sent to redistribut-
ion centers for a seven to
14 day stay at leading Am-
erican hotels where they
are to be given a complete
rest.
The men will be given the
same de-luxe service which
the hotels formerly gave the
public. Both officers and
enlisted men will be allow-
ed to have their wives with
them.
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sible to follow his actions—
that is, that freedom of
speech and writing is recog-
nized. That the land and its
resources be that joint pro-
perty of the nation as well
as the means of production
and that they be divided just-
ly among the people. That
the nation be given an op-
portunity to mature in an
elevation of standards to-
wards the true culture upon
which their future fortune
depends.”
“Democracy is like
‘brennivin.’ The more the
nation gets of it the less able
it will be to control itself.”
“Democracy is flattery
boasting,
The product of fallible
reason.
Hurry and flurry are its
results—
The weakest of timbers
to build on.”
“Democracy is that form
of government in which the
spirit and actions of the ind-
iyidual may find expression
without the interference of
authorities and in which in-
dividuals may criticize the
actions of public officials.”
“That is democracy when
the nation is free to create its
own laws in accordance with
its sense of justice, and has
the good fortune to respect
its own laws.”
“Democracy is a mob
which shouts in cadence as
directed — lets itself be led^
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Greenland assignment vari-
ed among the different
groups captured. Many of
them had taken a course in
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meteorology conducted in
Germany apparently for just
such an expedition, while
others had had a more ex-
tensive course in winter
warfare training at a Ger-
man camp in the mountains.
Food supplies and equip-
ment were adequate. The
last expedition, seized last
fall, had enough food for 11
months aboard the Extern-
steine, a trawler equipped
for Arctic travel, and
brought to Reykjavik by
Coast Guardsmen after its
capture off Greenland —4-
without a casualty. The cap-
tain of the Externsteine did
not scuttle his vessel as a
by the dogs which bark most
loudly. Makes premature
judgement of a man’s worth.
Forgets the progress of thq
individual and its own op-
inions. Passes sentence ac-
cording to the beating of the
drum. Chooses Barrabas as
its leader. Crucifies the
prophet.”
- “Democracy is that form
of government which declar-
es that the people are ‘free’
to ‘choose’ legislation which a
tiny clique within the politi-
cal parties has proposed and
drawn up for its. own inte-
rests and convenience.”
“Democracy is that freer
dom of speech of the poli-
ticians, which they use to
beguile the people’s vision,
while they fasten hobbles
and fetters on all freedom
of action which aims at the
people’s welfare. The object
is profit.”
“Democracy means that
the nation itself selects its
leaders. Democracy means
that all can become leaders
vho have the capacity for it,
whether they are penniless or
wealthy, of noble ancestry or
the sons of peasants.”
“Democracy is the justi-
fication of the majority —
the safeguard of the min-
oritv.”
Pictured in above photos are scenes of snow caves
used for shelter by Germans who operated a weather
station in northeast Greenland.
colleague had done shortly
before when hope was aban-
doned in the face of Amer-
ican attack.
Surprise was expressed by
some of the prisoners that
the U.S. had such large and
powerful ships operating off
Greenland — their principal
fear, they said, had been of
patrol planes from Iceland.
Food Situation Bad In
Germany.
The food situation in Ger-
many’s larger cities was de-
scribed as drastic last sum-
mer, with conditions better
in the smaller centers, how-
ever. Black market opera-
tions were reported general.
As relief captain on six dif-
ferent merchant vessels the
past year,, the Externsteine’s
commander said that mor-
ale in the German merchant
marine service was very low
— that fear of possible Gest-
apo reprisal against their
families was almost the sole
factor which curbed the gen-1
eral anti-Nazi feeling of the
personnel.
Men in the Merchant mar-
ine are more in contact withj
the outside world, the cap-
tain explained, while Ger-
man soldiers and their peop-
le at home hear only the pro-
paganda which is handed
them by Goebbels’ agencies.
If the Russians had taken
the Externsteine, said one of
its petty officers, the vessel j
would have been scuttled.:
They feared the Russians
most.
One of the crew, at home
in Hamburg in mid-summer
last year, said that the city
was pretty well destroyed
from Suderstrasse down to
the docks, that the people
of Hamburg were then in a
dangerous state of mind, and
that few of them agreed pol- i
ilieallv with the Nazi regime.
Americans “Amateur
Sherlock Holmeses.”
The group taken just aj
month before the Extern-
steine’s capture, including 28
Germans removed from a
scuttled vessel overcome off
the Greenland coast, were
more uniformly optimistic
about Germany’s prospect of
winning the war, when they
were questioned here. Some
even denied damage to Ger-
man cities whose bombing
had been repeatedly report-
ed.
One was the, movie-villain
type of. Nazi — sneered at
Americans, and in particul-
ar at his interrogators. He
declared that all Americans
were “amateur Sherlock
Holmeses” —- that they read
too many detective stories
and attached too much signi-
ficance to minor points in
trying to piece together a
story.
Another prisoner who had
spent much time in Norway
expressed regard for theNor-
wegians and said that the
Germans had been helpful
there, particularly in in-
creasing the area of tilled
land. He defended the Gest-
apo as a “much misrepre-
sented” agency.
“To Be Or Not To Be.”
The grim resolution of the
man who faces danger and
knows it to be inevitable, is
seen in another comment:
“This war is a question of
‘to be or not to be,’ and the
Germans are determined to
fight to the last man.
“I guess we haven’t made
any friends in this war,” be
added mournfully.
“If We Only Had American
Planes!”
In the summer of 1943,
seven German aviators were
captured here when their
reconnaissance plane was
shot down north of Iceland’s
coast. All of the fliers were
generous in praising Amer-
ican planes and American
technical progress. “If we
Germans only had Americ-
an planes, we’d win this \Var
soon,” one of them declar-
ed. Another had a good word
to say for the sportsmanship
of Americans. He couldn’t
understand why the Amer-
icans were fighting the Ger-
mans. When reminded that
it was Germany which had
first declared war on the
U.S. he branded that state-
men l as pure “Allied pro-
paganda.”
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Rooms
Shown at left in above photo is Miss Dee Jungers
of ARC Club 14 who has instituted a series of weekly
visits to camp day rooms—“in order to get acquainted
with the boys.” Helping Miss lungers entertain with
a songfest at this AAA outf.t are Miss Marge Callahan
(center) of the American Legation; Pfc. Bennett Tra-
pini (right), accordainist; and Paul E. “Kentucky”
Crose, Cml/c, (far r.ght) guitar player and hill-billy
singer. Program for these impromptu visits
sesson, hill-billy
V singing—plus