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With confidence in onr armed forces—with
the unhounding determination of our people—
we will gain the Inevitable triumph—so help
as God.
Roosevelt’s War Message.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1944.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A king might miss the guiding star.
A wise man’s foot might stumble.
For Bethlehem Is very far
From all except the humble.
Quoted by Margaret Lane.
News Buses, That’s All
Governor Darden of Virg'nia and Governor
Broughton held a two-man conference on school
bus transportation problems. The harr.ed
school boards and bus drivers could have told
them the trouble—old buses and not enough
of them, old tires and an insufficiency.
If the Governors solved the problem they
should both be appointed as transportation czar
for the United States, for they had before them
one of the toughest nuts to crack there is—get
ting buses from thin air.
Meanwhile, the bus drivers can help by driv
ing slowly, staying on the right side of the
road and preventing children from crossing in
front of an automobile after the children leave
the buses. Lives of the children are in the
hands of these drivers. They need no confer
ence to realize that.
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Vision, But.
Politics is a strange game. It is the only
business. profession, trade or whatnot in which
a person never gives up hope. The leftists in
the New Deal—all of them a>-e left but the
fanatics among them are ‘way over near the
foul line in left —are already boosting Henry
Wallace for President in 1948.
Henry was the victim of a doublecross at
the 1944 convention but that, too, is something
that accompanies politics — it’s commonplace.
Anyway, he can try, along ' ith a dozen of
others. He was thoroughly rebuffed, sat upon,
even pushed about, but there is nothing to pre
vent his dreaming gorgeous dreams.
He has vision but that’s not enough. What
America will be needing for a generation or a
couple of them is something more important.
It. is called common sense, necessary whether
or.e is playing right, center or left. His friends
might as well make an ambassador of him if
they can, or an expert of some sort on some
cubject that doesn't matter anyway.
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Prefer Ammunition
Word cornes from the European battlefront.
brought back by a congressman who made a
tour, that the soldiers are not as daffy about
pin-up girls as the home folks think. They
would rather have more ammunition.
After all. a pin-up girl is only a picture of
a female showing too much flesh. The GI
has never met her and never will. In some
strange way, she is supposed to bolster his
morale, make him kill a couple of extra Ger
mans some afternoon. There is an idea that
hr spends all his spare time gazing at a pic
ture.
Primal need of a soldier at war is ammuni
tion. A dozen pinups can’t substitute for a
bullet; a thousand fur an artillery shell. The
craze has gone too tar. Send the men what
they need and not some glamour gal’s likeness.
His morale is best boosted when he is well
armed, well fed end equipped to defend his own
life.
—-V
Fine Appointment
Gregg Cherry, just before becoming governor
of North Carolina, made an appointment that
will >land him in good stead throughout his
administration. Naming John W. Harden as his
executive secretary, he insures himself of a
loyal, capable aide. He will have at his elbow
a man of high character, great intelligence,
honesty, courage and industry. It is a combina
tion not often found.
John Harden, for more than 17 years a work
ing newspaper man in North Carolina, knows
nothing of the craft and cunning of politics;
its trickery and deceit have passed him by.
That is so much the better. He is an open
faced, open-souled man, a square dealer. He is
one of the most popular newspaper men the
state has ever known, popular with men oi
his profession and with the public. But do not
mistake his amability for softness. He can be
like granite where principle is involved.
It was a wise selection and he will help give
s^good flavor to the new administration
Target For Waste
With the Narth Carolina General Assembly
preparing to convene again and, set the pat
tern of the state's part in the economic life of
the people for two more years, the biggest
question before them, the one that will agi
tate representatives and senators is what to do
with the money.
mat money? The surplus which has steadi
ly piled up with collection o: war-time taxes,
roughly 70 million dollars. There it is. Will it
be used wisely for the people—it's their money,
not belonging to anybody else—or will it be
: dissipated to stop the clamor of pressure
groups? It should not be a target for the wild
spenders. They have no more sense than those
| individuals who think wartime prosperity will
1 last forever and who besiege the places where
I money may be spent, wasted, thrown away.
__ £ xt- _ InHiiAnliol o rf +Vlo lob^crc
in the state government seem somewhat agreed
' that part ot the surplus should be used to
[ retire the state’s debt. All the outstanding
bonds of the state are not callable, but the
plan proposed by Charles Johnson, state treas
urer. and Edmund Gill, state revenue com
missioner. is for a sinking fund of about $52,
000.000 to be established from the surplus with
which to retire these bonds as they come due.
What about the other $18,000,000?
It is advocated that it be kept in reserve
against a rainy day—the day that will un
doubtedly come after the war. It will at least
drizzle. The care of veterans home from the
war will require large sums. In one way or
another the people will be paying for the war
for perhaps 100 years. Now is no time to
j waste money.
But there are hundreds, seeing that pile of
i money and aching to get their hands on it,
who will launch a tremendous attack to ap
propriate it. There will be a hundred causes
plausibly argued — higher salaries for some
state-paid employes, more and bigger state
buildings, "improvements." lavish expendi
tures. Each of these requests should be care
i full- examined and most of them should be
| refused.
j It is not the business of a government of
any sort to operate at a profit, to pile up
a surplus through taxation. It should take
enough for expenses of government and prop
er maintenance of services attendant upon the
l'fe of a people, but government isn’t itself in
business. When, as in this case, the surplus
came because of war and a war boom, the
surplus should be wisely used, conserved; used
! largely to reduce the state’s debt. The time
i to pay a debt, it has been pointed out, is when
you have the money. That is not the time to
engage in further, increased spending.
Further, the Federal government, with a
debt of perhaps 300 billion dollars when the
war ends, must continue to tax heavily if it
stays solvent. The state should reduce taxes ■
while it has the opportunity and while the
national government will have to continue to
drain all it can from the pockets of business
and individuals.
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More Violent Deaths
No matter how pressing the problems of
war ard borne front, there is apparently al
ways plenty of time to be killed through care
lessness. The holiday death toll was consider
able throughout the United States. North Caro
1 a had its share.
Whenever we celebrate, no matter what the
reason for the observance, it must apparently
be accompanied by violent death. People go
around to wish people a happy New Year
| and the New Year never dawns for them. Car
; and gun, thoughtless people, holiday mad,
; rn^ke business good—but only for the under
taker.
Do you ever see an old person, 'way up in
the 80's or even past 90 years, and wonder
how he did it? One way he did it was by
being always careful.
-V.
One could not help being aware of a growing
restiveness and indignation among the men
upon receiving news of strikes as well as the
reports of high wages and luxury spending.—
Rev. Theodore C. Speers of New York, back
from Alaska.
* * *
The Japanese may hope a long war will fa
cilitate their indoctrination of the Far Eastern
people they have conquered, but their hopes
probably will be false ones because they have
never proved a capacity for colonial adminis
tration.—Dr. Wilson M. Hume, North India Y.
M. C. A. secretary.
As the tempo of the war increases, the troops
overseas demand more and more from us here
in the United States. The production of the
necessary tools for final victory is far from an
accomplished fact.—Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somer
vell, Army Service Forces chief.
* * *
German command by intuition has ended.
Much to the regret of our staff, the Hitler mis
takes are no longer being made. Generalship
of great skill appears to be handling the Nazi
forces.—Frederick C. Crawford of Cleveland,
ex-National Association of Manufacturers pres
ident back from Europe.
• * »
I know of no case where our Armies have
been held up for lack of sufficient weapons
and ammunition. This, however, doesn’t mean
that we shouldn’t produce more.—Maj.-Gen.
Levin H. Campbell, Army Ordnance Chief.
* * •
Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows
what s gong on. The American people are en
titled to knew what is going on.—George Lyons,
OW1 representative at SHAEF, on German
offensive.
* * •
We have a group of young men here, engi
neers and scientists, with orders never to have
a practical idea.—Brig.-Gen. Franklin O. Car
roll, Air Technical Service engineering chief
at Dayton, 0
Fair Enough
(Editors note—The Star and the News
accept nc responsibility for the personal
views of Mr. Pegier, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1944, By King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK.—Inquiry into the plan of the
Corr.iriunists in the East to take to the radio
openly with their propaganda, eventually with
television, has led to some interesting inci
dental information.
William S. Gailmore, 34 years old, weight
200 pounds, married, the father of one child,
is a news commentator for the Electronics
Corporation of America on New York station
WJZ of the Blue network, from 11:05 to 11:15
three nights a week and a sustaining com
mentator employed by the network, itself, two
nights a week. After Jan. 4. Electronics will
take over the other two nights and be his
SpUIlcSUr live iiigma a ntcn.
Gailmore's name formerly was William Mar
golis. He dropped his old name and devised
the new one by a re - arrangement of the
same letters after he had pleaded guilty in the
court of general sessions, New York, on March
29, 1939, to a charge of grand larceny in the
first degree. Hi* crime was the theft of an
automobile and he confessed that he had ac
tually stolen five cars and had been caught on
two occasions prior to the theft which brought
the indictment but had paid off the victims
and escaped further trouble. Psychiatrists ex
amined Margolis and on the strength of their
recommendations he was placed on probation
and went to an institution for treatment. He is
still on probation and will be until next May.
Gailmore insists that he is not a communist
although he >abitually associates with mem
bers of extreme left wing organizations and,
like all avowed communists these days, uses
"Democracy" as though it were synonymous
with the Russian system and fiercely attacks
fascsim but not communism. The terms "fas
cist” and "fascism," incidentally, are applied
to many individuals who only oppose elements
of the Roosevelt domestic political and econo
mic revolution and to their program and
beliefs which such Americans, on their part,
describe as "Americanism.’’
Until about four months ago, Gailmore's pre
decessor in the same spot on the Blue net
work was George Reedy, an old - line Ameri
can with long experience as a newspaper re
porter who was hit in the knee by a dum-dum
bullet while serving with the Sixth Field Ar
tillery of the First division in France in the
First World war and lost a leg. Mr. Reedy
wears the Purple Heart. He has a son in the
Army who quit the press galleries in the Capi
tol in Washington to become pilot of a bomber.
The son is no longer a pilot, however, having
beei. re - assigned because of defective vision,
I but is still in the army.
About a week before Gailmore went to work
on the Blue network, Ed Noble and Chester
Laroche, two of the chief executives of thq
company, were told of Gailmore’s peculiar em
phasis and distinctions in his treatment of the
news and given some of the background of
the Electronics Corporation of America. Never
theless, the deal went through and Gailmore
has been performing regularly. The network
takes the position that opinion is desirable in
comment on the meaning of the news and that
interference beyond a very uncertain point
by the network is a violation the freedom of
the air. The executives of the network say
Gailmore submits his copy and commercials in
advance of delivery and that so far all have
been "clean.” On the other hand, however,
they admit that two of the most violent exhort
ers and propagandists of the air, both employed
on their chain, often violate truth and attack
individuals unjustly and insist that they can
do nothing about it because these individuals
are more powerful, through their rating, than
the chain itself They conceive that, although
Gailmore is co-operative and biddable now,
he might, in time, become dictatorial and
preach his political views openly in the guise
of legitimate comment.
The president of Electronics Corporation of
America is Samuel J. Novick, of New York,
who was the subject of a laudatory feature
article of two pages in the magazine section
of the Worker, the communist publication, on
Dec. 10. He has shown great interest in Russia
and in organizations favored by the commu
nists and his company is engaged in manu
facturing electrical equipment, some of it se
cret, for the American government.
Novick is listed Its a director of the People’s
Radio foundation, a new concern, recently or
ganized to enter the radio and television field
to deliver news and "information” and other
wise to serve the American public. Among
others interested in the foundation w'ith No
vick are several individuals who have been
conspicuous and active for years in the Com
munist front in American politics.
In giving his background to WJZ, Gailmore
concealed essential information concerning his
past but on Wednesday, when summoned to the
office for a conference, apparently suspected
that the company had obtained the truth from
other quarters and thereupon told them the
whole story. He still insisted, however, that
he was not a communist but a "Progressive”
and an ardent believer in “Freedom” and
"Democracy.”
SO THEY SAY
He saw our plight and put his plane down
on the water. Then he would taxi up to the
rim of flames, throw out a thin line with a
floater on it for the struggling men to grab
onto, and then tow them to safety. . . I wish
I could find out who that pilot was—he just
disappeared after his rescue work was done.—
Capt. Philip G. Beck of Brooklyn, N. Y., skip
per of sunk oiler Mississinewa.
* * •
The Stalin-Churchill program means that
we will have fought only to substitute one form
of totalitarianism and one kind of martyrdom
for small nations for another. Even the Nazi
technique of mass deportations by tearing mil
lions of helpless people from their homes. . .is
being copied.—Co-ordinating committee of
American - Polish Associations.
* * *
There can be no half measures. If fascism
is left to breed anywhere then in 10 or 20
years’ time rivers of blood will flow again.
Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer.
* * *
It is estimated that 60 to 65 per cent of our
surpluses will be so purely military in charac
ter as to be unsalable for civilian use. Sen.
James M. Mead of New York.
____--_______I
| COMING HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS_
WITH THE AEF
A Captured G I’s Diary
BY GEORGE TUCKER
Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon
NOZAY, France.—(Delayed)—(I?
—When Cpl. Onald F. Nelson, oi
Galesburg, 111., was captured by
the Germans early in September,
he started a diary and during his
79 days of captivity in St. Nazaire
he kept at it.
Recently he was exchanged with
other Allied prisoners and brought
out this record. Here are some
of the less-censorable notes:
“Sept. 13.—Being caught by the
Heinies was something that never
entered my head, but today it
happened. We started out with
13 men. Four of us never got
back. What happened to the oth
ers I am unable to say, except
that one may have been killed or
wounded.
“Sept. 14.—Chow is bad. The
water has been condemned, so we
drink only coffee, and very little
of that. Our smoking ration is
one small German cigarette daily.
Sept. 15.—The prisoner total is
I now 10 Americans, three British
jand seven French.
| “Sept. 22.—Rumor has it that
the Germans have been given 48
i hours to surrender this area or
suffer all-ou' bombing. But the
; German general refused, and was
[given the Iron Cross.
“Sept. 26.—Still no water. Two
planes came over again last night.
They come almost every night,
and we still hope they may mean
something, but no bombing yet.
“Oct. 15.—They brought in an
other American prisoner, a Texan,
and he is in very bad shape.
“Oct. 29.—Excitement last night!
Two lieutenants discovered the
guards had left their door unlock
ed. They tried to ‘jimmy’ it for
a later escape, but the guards who
were only 10 feet away heard
them and fired two shots. Now the
lieutenants are in confinement.
“Nov. 6.—I've been looking af
ter the wounded Texan but at 9
o’clock last night the doctors came
and took him to the hospital. He
may have a lung congestion . . .
Coyne (Pvt. William Coyne, of
Philadelphia) tried to make it at
count»time last night but was
caught and given five days soli
tary confinement.
“Nov. 7.—Today is election day
at home. We took a ballot among
ourselves, and Roosevelt won.
“Nov. 8.—Five German desert
ers have been shot.
“Nov. 29—Extra! mass escape!
Four officers take off.
“Nov. 21.—We’ve been locked
up all day. The Heinies are really
clamping down. Two of the men
who tried to escape were caught
and brought back. They were
badly beaten up.
“Nov. 24.—Best news in the
world! The general called us out
and told us there would be a mass
exchange of prisoners sometime
next week.
“Nov. 26.—Another nervous day.
Jt may be tomorrow.
“Nov. 27.—Excitement is at white
heat . . .
“Nov. 28.—Tomorrow is defi
nitely set.
“Nov. 29.—Nobody slept a wink.
Up by five and on the move by
bus. We crossed the Doire river
at seven. At one place the Ger
mans made us blindfold ourselves
. . . then the exchange. Brass
hats everywhere. All this was
covered by war correspondents
and newsreel cameras. The cor
respondents took all our names I
and told us it would be in the U.
S. papers in four days. Hope Mom
reads it so she'll know I’m safe.
“Later. — We’ve been treated
iike kings. For the first meal —
steaks! Pork chops for supper. A
show tonight and this afternoon
showers . . . All this I'll have to
sleep on.”
Daily Prayer
FOR MORE COMRADESHIP
From the brotherhood in arms
that has developed among our fight
ing men, may we at home learn
new fraternity, O Lord our Teach
er. We thank Thee for all the noble
comradeship that has been shown
in the services; for the heroic self
sacrifices of man in behalf of man.
May this unity extend to us on the
home front, wiping out all the un
love y and hurtful clashes of class
against class, creed against creed,
color against color, interest against
interest. Send Thy Spirit sweeping
in cleansing power through our spir
its, that we may know ourselves
as brothers of one another, because
children of one Father. Grant us
hearts too high for hate, and a
mind of tolerance, forbearance and
sympathy. Dr£w us into understand
ing fellowship with Jesus Christ,
that in Him we may find fraternity
with all our fellows. Thus out of
war may there emerge the great
peace for all the world. Amen.—
W. T. E.
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Before putting away rubber
articles such as rubber gloves and
pads, sprinkle them with corn
starch or talcum powder.
LETTER_ BOX
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
To The Editor:
It will be deeply appreicated it
you will publish this letter of
thanks to the patrons of the Wil
mington post office for their coop
eration in complying with the
“Mail Early" program. This pro
gram and the manner in which it
was followed, resulted in all mail,
both incoming and outoing, being
handled without delay at this point.
Our records show that the out
going mail for this Christmas sea
son was the greatest in the history
of our office, with incoming well in
proportion.
I also wish to express my ap
preciation, as Postmaster, to every
employee of the Wilmington post
office for his or her untiring efforts
during the rush season.
A major portion of the temporary
Christmas help was furnished from
the New Hanover High school and
the Williston Industrial school.
These boys did a grand job and
reflected decided credit on the
schools in which they were train
ed.
To the Chamber of Commerce,
the U. S. O. at Second and Orange
streets, and last but by no means
least—to your own organization, we
wish to say: Thank you.
With Seasons Greetings,
W. R. Dosher.
Postmaster.
Wilmington, N. C.
Dec. 26, 1944.
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British 14th Army
Advancing On Yeu
KANDY. Ceylon. Dec. 26.—(UP)
—Troops of the British 14th Army
are continuing to advance towards
Yeu, along the Shwegyin-Leu road,
it was disclosed today in a South
east Asia Command communique
on Allied activity in Burma. Yeu is
about 70 miles northwest of Man
dalay. Japanese opposition appear
ed to be slig.it.
On the front of the 15th Indian
Corps, the communique said, load
ed enemy Sampans on the Mayu
river were engaged by artillery
and machinegun fire. Results were
not stated.
Elsewhere on the land front Al
lied patrols were active.
-:-V
BURLINGTON MILLS EARNINGS
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.— UP)—Bur
ington Mills Corp. reports net
tamings for the fiscal year end- 1
;d September 30, of $3,934,939 or
?4 20 a common share, compared :
vith $3,778,456 or $3.97 a common 1
share, for the preceding fiscal
year
The Literary Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
“Until They Eat Stones,” by
Russell Brines (Lippincott; $3).
Russell Brines, one of The Asso
ciated Press’ staff in the Orient,
was among the last Japanese vic
tims to be repatriated, and what
he has to say about conditions in
the Japanese "Co - prosperity
sphere” is therefore as up to date
as any such information we can
get. But his "Until They Eat
Stones” is useful for another im
portant reason. This is Mr. Brines’
evident painstaking research. Since
his return he has carefully read
everything he could find, piecing to
gether what he read and what he
knew. I suspect the Japanese them
selves could learn a lot about their
empire from the book.
He has the exact figures on the
food allowed all classes of Japa
nese society, for example, although
he cannot be perfectly sure how
far the black market has gone. The
transfer of factories to Mar.churia
is no mystery to him, and he has
some facts to add to those already
known about Subhas Chandra Bose
the Indian traitor who is daily offer
ing to helD “free” India, and trying
hard to link his movement with
Gandhi’s. The details of Japanese
exploitation throughout her recent
ly stolen territories can be found
in Mr. Brines’ book—such items
as that at first the little brown
fellows hacked at the rubber trees
with little regard for the future of
the East Indies, but in 1943 they
began planting a few to replace the
damage.
Japanese rationing in all depart
ments is gone into carefully, and
some of the reasons why (with cur
forces sinking ships by the score)
the Japanese still keep afloat are
explained. They can build ships
very fast, and many wooden ones
are coming out of Malaya and simi
lar districts. Life in the Philippine
prison camps has not been better
sketched, to my knowledge, and Mr.
Brines has an advantage over
most in that he lived in the Phil
ippine camps and later was free
in Shanghai, and still later lived
there as a political prisoner.
There is much more. Mr. Brines
is casual about it, but for me his
book is close to a perfect study of
the greatest national inferiority
complex in history, and the hell it
has produced
Interpreting
The War
Bv KIRKE L. SIMp-ov
Associated Press War \r
Disturbing as it nv" i'-n
:ront readers. Allied ‘
i further penetratic
virtually to the east : *
Meuse in the Dinant arei ’ ■ /’.*
:ell ail the story.
Collapse of the An
salient at St. Y.t'r.
Sunday spit the Gs
into two distinctive
is acknowledged by ti
As a result, the \
Belgium—at last - £ J
become for the firs- - ,
consolidated wedge
ward 50 miles from es;'
to head up in armored '
reported within f .
Meuse Sunday on
narrow front.
At its base near
German jump-off pC;.-.
wedge was less
wide. It had : st . -
gained ground on " . r
north and south “sh -1”
the bulge where Amt ... V
snd Third Army reserves dei
ed in strength threatening W
the tables on the foe i
Current estmr ite n
ucuci ai . :.Q: < pc;-.. .. , j
ters place two and : ssibly thr»
German armies within that deep
and dangerously narrow pocket
German reports say Arne
Seventh Army elements
Third Army comrades in tin
ter attacks developing along the
south face of the bulge”. There w -;
no confirmation from Allied sc
es but it seemed credible
Eisenhower had massed ..- |
striking power there for counte 1
blows.
A stone-wall First Army defense
along the north face of the v.-ecke !
after the first force of the Gen
man surprise attack had worn off
is the dominant circumstance of
the battle to date. There r.c’
been no intimation that M.:na
Army reserves from north of
First Army on the Roer :.cve
shifted to the Belgian bulge front
to match Third Army movements
on the opposite flank. If any help
had been sent to the American
forces from the inactive British
and Canadian Army fronts still
farther north, no word of it has
passed Allied censorship.
The First Army front contracted
as fne German thrust deepened.
Third Army divisions filling in the
gap; but without prejudice to tr.e
situation on the Roer nor to tr.e
other northern Allied potential at
tack front from Roermond to
Arnhem held by British and Cana
dian comrades.
That may prove significant. It
implies that while the German
surprise counter -attack definitely
may have ended the Allied winter
offensive in the Saar Basin area,
it has only delayed thus far con
templated offensive thrusts in fne
north.
There is a hint in current press
reports from Allied Supreme Head
quarters that Allied staff special
ists are not gravely concerned over
the further German surge we.-'
ward to the close vicinity of the
Meuse. The river's north-south
span across southern Belgium
from Namur to Givet is the most
formidable natural barrier of the
region. An ultimate American
stand behind it is to be expected.
Obviously the Germans must
greatly widen their attack corri
dor to the north or south or boa
to escape the peril of having it
pinched off at the base.
FRENCH DELEGATE
TO LUBLIN POLES
PARIS, Dec. 26.—-TP- Perhaps
foreshadowing future diplomatic
moves, the French government
announced today that it was sera
ing a delegate to the Polish Luo
lin committee to handle repaJ.a
tion of Frenchmen escaping hors
the Nazi lines.
The French news agency, in re
porting the decision, said that _
Foreign Office had found
Polish territories taken bv -
Russians were being ,e^fcU'E‘.
administered” by the Lu on
gime. . .... ,
The Foreign Office said that
constantly-increasing number
French war prisoners was De
liberated by the Soviet advancfi.
particularly in former J~
areas. Some 1,500 Alsat.an
ready have been repatriated,
the Russians to Fiance. ■ •
were drafted originally mt
German army. . ,jt).
French recognition . ;-t
lin committee as the rousn =J
ernment was reports 1 1 ^
agreements reached by <-> ,
Gaulle and Premie: 5
their recent negotial
cow. French resist
have been camp .2(j
nition of the Lublin re.o - 1 ■■
of the London govern
exile.
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