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U. S. Sergeant's Work in Vienna
Cited as 'Passion' of Democracy
■ Last of six articles by the edi
tor of This Week Magazine con
densed from a confidential talk
after a tour of Europe last year.
•y WWkiinT Nichols
s-s-• UmamaaSA* AlIKsiikM
NEW YORK, April 5.—On the
beat earning back from Europe wu
Chairman Herter of the Special
Foreign Affairs Committee sent over
to investigate and report on the
Marshall Plan, and we were talk
ing about his experiences.
Representative Herter was re
minded of a trip he made in Yugo
slavia two years ago—again on
some kind of a mission. He was in
a jeep. In the back seat of the
Jeep was a young Communist girl
from Yugoslavia. At the start of
the trip she treated hinr with the
utmost hostility and suspicion and
aat far in her corner of the back
seat of the jeep. And he sat far In
his comer.
But if you know Jeeps and if you
knew the roads of that region you
cannot maintain that kind of a re
lationship very long. They got
bounced about and finally fell into
conversation. But this girl was so
filled with her doctrine that she
treated him as though he were
some strange monster from an
other world, as though even con
tact from the bouncing of the jeep
would contaminate her.
She said, "You people from the
capitalist world, I can’t understand
you. I can’t respect you. You are
not passionate about anything. You
haven’t any passion for your country,
for your society, no passion for your
Job or for each other. As for us, we
are passionate about Communism.
That is the thing that makes our
regime the right regime.”
No Answer Ready.
Mr. Herter confessed he didn’t
have any ready answer for that. All
he could say was, “Maybe we can
arrange for you to come to America
and see for yourself. Maybe we are
not passionate, but I think we have
got something. But it’s hard for me
to put it into words.”
Well, it’s about time we found the
words. We are faced with an ex
panding system built on passion. I
have talked to you about the four
impulses which give Communism
its strength. One is the passion of
greed. Second, the passion of fear.
Third is the passion of envy and
hatred. Fourth is propaganda, ex
ploiting the emotions of excitement,
adventure, exaltation. All these
forces are building a hideous society
and one which is going to produce
more human suffering than any
other society in the world. But our
answer cannot be to stand by with
out knowing what to say or do.
I am not going to give you a
final answer. Instead I am going
to tell you one final story, the story
of Sergt. William Scoggins. Maybe
his story is a parable for that young
Yugoslav lady who wanted us to
be more passionate about things.
I bumped into Sergt. Scoggins in
a rather curious way. When I was
in Vienna 20 years ago I had stayed
at the Hotel Koblenz, a beautiful
little hotfel up in the hills, overlook
ing the Danube. And I was curious
. to go back because the Koblenz
had been through quite a lot in the
meantime.
Turned Into Refugee. Camp.
During the war the Germans took
over the hotel aa headquarters for
an antiaircraft battalion. Urey
surrounded it with temporary wood
en barracks, painted an ugly field
green. Then as the Russian armies
came in from the north and east
the field green was shattered by
machine gun and mortar fire.
The next step was to turn it into
a displaced persons’ camp. And so
this hotel, which had once been
filled with theatrical performers
and then with Nazis, now was filled
with men and women and babies
from Yugoslavia, from the German
4 speaking communities, who had
fled from Marshal Tito and the
Communists, and were quartered
there in the hotel and the barracks
around it.
As we drove up a Jaunty young
American sergeant came out and
said, "What can I do for you?”
I said, "We want to see the com
mending officer. We heard this li
a camp for displaced persons.”
Re said, "You have come to the
right man. I run this camp.”
"Isn’t there any other officer?” I
asked.
"No, it’s me," he replied. “There
are four camps, and a lieutenant
is in charge. But I am the boss of
this one. I’m the king. There are
1,376 persons here. They are all
refugees except me.”
Party Taken on Tour.
And then he proceeded to take us
through. And believe me it was
one of the most thrilling things in
my life to see this boy from Carls
bad, N. Mex., who had spent two
years in a school of mines, then
joined the Army, fought his way
through with Patton’s outfit, who
had been an executioner of Nazi
war criminals—chosen for the dirty
job and had taken it—and now was
given the job of running the D. P.
camp.
“I wanted to organize this and
make these people happy, and
that's what I’m doing.” he told us.
“Look at the talent I have.” And
in the fact his assistant was a
former Yugoslav banker who spoke
20 languages; he had a former
police chief to keep things in order;
the head of the nursery was a
former child psychologist. And.thls
nursery, by the way. had been beau
tifully decorated with Mother Goose
murals—the sergeant had talked
some Red Cross girls into doing
that for him.
His special pride was the Orphan
asylum. We went Into a room filled
with row on row of little cribs—
children whose parents had died on
the way. Over In the corner a
Yugoslav crone hovering over a very
recent little baby, and the sergeant
said, “that is the latest arrival.’’
While we were talking, my wife
want over and talked to the old
Wfjman and found out that the baby
wasn’t Yugolsav at all. The mother
was Austrian an{) the father a
Russian soldier. So a little maverick
had been slipped In there and the
sergeant was a little embarrased.
But he took it in his stride.
Old Man Given Job,
In front of the hotel were flower
beds and a ,balustrade and then the
hillside falling sheer down to the
Danube. And there was an old, old
man with the saddest eyes I have
ever seen in a human being. All the
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“He Is one of my special eases,”
the sergeant said. “That man has
really had a hard time. His wife
was killed by Tito. One of bis eons
was killed in the resistance move
ment and the other was taken away
by Tito’s men and has never been
heard of since. He is really alone,
but I have given him a Job. Out
here we have got lots of children,
and bis JOb is to stand here and keep
them from getting in the flowers or
falling over the cliffs.” ,
The old man talked to my wife
about his past sadness, but he said,
“it is much better now. I am doing
something useful. We are all work
ing together, and isn’t that sergeant
a wonderful man?”
An old Austrian general who had
accompanied us on this trip put it
even better. As we were driving
back to our hotel, he said: “That
/
boy represents the best that's la
Amartea. It the Austrians er the
Germans or the Ituarians were run
ning that camp, they’d have sent In
a couple of hundred troops to do It.
Every one would have been regi
mented gad every one would have
been miserable. But this one ser
geant is doing It better, just by using
Ingenuity, and human sympathy
and gifts of leadership."
Sergfc Scoggins comes closer
to conveying the one positive and
hopeful note that I can find any
where. He symbolises what I call
controlled passion. He Is the answer
to these violent, hateful and destruc
tive passions- the greed, the fear,
the hatred and the kind of super
stition which iupplies this Com
munist drive with Its motive power.
The only thing we can hope Is that
the Sergt. Scoggins’ spirit—which
is one of quiet passion, a passion for
decency, fair play, for working to
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