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PAGE TWO
THE CAMPUS CHAT. DENTON. TEXAS, FRIDAY.
18. 1944
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Friday. February li. 1U4I
Qo&ciUi Violate Acpd
2u*et &1 Roman RrUiUca
With the storming of St. Paul'* Bamtiea,
one of the 1ft building* in Home which
enjoys the Vatican'" right to frn-dom
from Roman or Italian jurisdiction, Faa-
cist police not only broke solemn treaties
la^t week, but they shattered a 59 hundred
year old state of tranquility an well.
It wan about 19 hundred year* atr that
Km|ierorer ('onstantine in hi* (Hilare near
the Vatican City ordered the first baniltca
built mo that pilgrim* would haw a suit-
able place to meet for praying Since that
time until today the basilica ha* remained
ax sacred as the Roman Catholic Cathedral
Itself—and it too has* exercised the me-
dieval privilege of shutting it* door*
against enemies of persons who nought
refuge in its interior
Collefc student* have but to look at the
fact* that history has written to glimpue
the vast difference between today's world
«trugxla and any conflict like it. There
have b*«n wars that have shaken the calm
of Rome and even of the Vatican City but
none before has desecrated the holines*
of the Roman Catholic basilica. Blood has
run thin as revolutionary groups clutched
at power, and kings and demagogue* have
gone and come since the year 67 when
Saint Peter was crucified in the Vatican,
but great armies arid ambitious military
heads alike have always shown respect
to the basilica's right of neutrality.
The Greeks, Goths, and the Lombards
of Abloin and of Agiluf respected it when
they invaded Italy in MM). Charlemagne
the Great respected it when he was en-
larging the Roman territory in 774, at
which time Rome was subject to being
invaded, enlarged, and reduced at a mo-
ment's notice. Napoleon himself paid heed
to it and did not destroy the basilica when
in 1796 the French Republic began it.«
war on the Church of Italy. And Italy was
careful to recognise the neutrality right
when she brought troojis into Rome in
1870 to seize the Papal states Finally, the
Kaiser acknowledged the right during
the last great war when in 1915 he
growled, "Let them keep their churches "
Yes, the basilica has had peace for a
long time. Inside the oblong hall like
i'tjilding with its many doors, carved
balconies, and marble columns, years have
nodded by remarkably unchanging. Here
day after day the faithful have come and
knelt at Saint Paul's statue, and some-
time* tears have splashed on his marble
robe. Here, although not often, priests
have met to argue courteously and cast
their ballot* one way or the other And
always a high priest has met with them.
He ha,Hi sat in a beautiful chair a little
ai«art from them, fingering his rosary
not saying much
For years at the hasilica also the bronze
Hi in the chapel has startled young monks
out of sleep in near-li§r monasteries Daily,
old monks have sat in the light of afternoon
sun seeping through the basilica's stained
windows and studied art craft of ancient
masters whose name* they know as well
as their own. At this place everything has
been orderly, calm-and silent as [tale
nuns coming to light the candles in the
basilica's confession chamber when it is
li took war 1944 dictator, style to blast
the quiet of almost 2000
• •
Bq Burl Stiff
CAMPUS CAMERA
Off the Campus With tfce Exes:
Hl< hOKY, DK KORY . . .
Somebody t**t me to it. I always -wore I
would do R. I would have, too I had no
definite plan, but something in the mon-
key wrench line would have been nice
Neat but not gaudy Just a swift. weH-
piaced bash ir, the face in passing. No
bitter outburst of passion Just well
controlled Ladd-like brutality Take that.
I would have said And that, and that, and
that' Poof, no clock
Now do not get the idea that I am in
any manner clock-thirsty Clock* in our
famtly have remained quite unmolested
for the length of their normal live*. I do
not as a rule hat" docks, even clocks with
roman numerals which ! cannot read I
suppose I could per hap* learrj to love
clocks. Not passionately maybe
However, I did not like this clock which
someone must have beat me to Thi« clock
hung in the center of the downstair* ad
building hall It. had a pendulum A hate-
ful gold pendulum The only thing wrong
with this clock was that it was incapable
of showing any time other than five min-
utes past H o'clock I have an 8 o'clock
class. Naturally
I state that someone has beat me to it
because this particular clock is no more.
In its place is a shiny efficient-looking
electric timepiece This cl<rk has no pen-
dulum and is not nearly *<• hateful as its
predecessor Perhaps I am wrong in ac-
crediting this clock's demise to *om« noble
student benefactor; perhaps it merely
grew old and tired of harsh words and
looks and gave up
A HORSK! A HORSE!
Perhaps General Sherman had fillet of
filly in mind
Recent,ly Miss Bessie Shook brought a
copy of an 1R6'5 G<stfey's Ladies' Book to
show her I'll English class the customs
and trends of that wartime [>eriod
Leaving the fashion plates. Miss Shook
turned to lists of southern-style recipes,
read aloud typical dishes, flipped the page
and read the title, "Our Noble Friend, the
Horse."
Pause.
A disturbed hand shot up from the
front row.
A worried freshman voice inquired anx-
iously. "Is I hat a recipe, too7"
ST \RIM ST . .
It was dark in the Mural Himtri even
at noon, so perhaps that explains it.
At any rate, Virginia Paxton. Isabel
Rook, and they swear a couple of un-
attached males, were partaking of nourish-
ment in this same darkened Mural Room
in Dallas last week, somewhere in the
vicinity of noon.
Miss Paxton left the table for a few
moments to try her hand at the refund
cups in the pay phones, but finding noth-
ing of interest, ambled innocently back
to her companions In mid-amble sh • ob-
served a gentleman at an adjacent table
looking at her with perhaps a glimmer
of interest Unfortunately. Miss Paxton's
ensign escort also caught that worthy
co-ed's eye at the same time, so she re-
turned to home base.
Shortly afterwards, the gentleman in
question appeared at their table, greeted
Miss Paxton's swain with a hearty "lliya,
Sailor!" and asked the two ladies for a
dance. One at a time, of course. Paxton
and Rwk gibbered wittily and finally
gained sufficient control to gulp out an
approximate yes.
They danced. Or ut least as far as the
ladies remember, they danced They are
rather sure.
"He was just kind of nice and a goes!
dancer and quiet and not silly at all and
his hair looked natural and he looks the
same as in the movies and that's all."
Quote Paxton and Rook
Oh. well, the Mural Room is quite dark
even at noon. Or perhaps comedian Red
Skeiton was just trying to sell another
bond.
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Vacation s Vocation Leaves
Girls With Lenses To Grind
A varatirm'n vx-ation i.-fl tw<.
attractive North To*** Mil
Jamison, M'' aytviil. . arc!
Mary franc** franklin, Longview,
with a kn<'wl^*'l(t< >if nrwe of the
moat unu*ual occupati'Tiai fi#W
> i the eampaa Both worked in
<>l t «si cmaptoHW in their reaper-
tive home town*, euttintf, fiuintr,
wmi
Junt out ttf hiah wh«>f l. both
ifirl* startotI to work in optics!
compaiiMw a- recisptemist* la*t
attmmer. hut became :ntere«tei! in
rimkiriK (rt **e* ami went to work
in !h. latHiratori^B After a month'*
trainmir they were able to cut,
polish, and mount pair >f jrla*«*«
m a little tea* than an h«<ur
' f've broken ttmny a pair of bt
focal*. Miss Jamison *nfhe<l tu> she
pxpSatned the tMmu* process at
drillmir hole* on a f,re*crii d dot
in the liaises into which the nose
bridge and the «ar ptacNNi are
screwed
<>irU I'rrpare l*n*r«
In l oth companies the roujrh
lenses were or-iere,) from wholesale
houses according to the power de-
aired, and the if iris took the do'tor'«
(iroscriptions an«i then cut, polisiieit,
a nd mounted the it lasses in the pro
per frame*
"The catting is not so hard,"
M * Franklin stated, "but locating
the exact, center of the lenses is
quite a job. You sec, the center
is the strongest point of foew# and
this must la* right ovei ihi* eyeball
when the glasses are fioisheil, I'm
afraid I'd never have mnoh il
without the uw of the new pre-
cision instruments "
fining on to explain the process
•if glasses making, the girl* point
ed out that alt measurements «r<
calculated m the metric system arid
that the glasses arc cut two mills
meters target than is required t<
allow for smoothing and polishing
Stone wheels mounted on specially
designed machines are used for the
final smoothing process
Fad Is Troublesome
"The recent fad for *ylo, the
light plastir like frames, and
pointed "Harlequin" lenses have
given optical workers one the
biggest headaches they've had in
a long time," Miss Jamison de-
clared, "It's hard to get the right
slant in the glass and it's doubly
hard to put the frame on them
once you get them cut "
Fads of this sort are especially
popular with the young people *h
think the glasses styliah, the girls
pointed «ut The tie* style has
createc a in cater demand for «?> ••
glasses, they explained, and 'i<«
tor's ifti n have to refuse to mak<
the glasses, for since the start of
the war all optical material,« have
been rigidly rationed
Although neither of the co-eds ex
pert* to follow this profession, both
admit that they figuratively fit
giaas'-s on every one they meet.
"Every time I see any one with a
flat nose or sunken eyes." Miss
Jamison laughs. "I worry ats.ut
the poor person who will have to
make glasses for him "
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OFFICIAL I OMMfNIQfES ra-
gar-s * g the r ag ng battle now hi
pr >g-« a m the toathern pert of
he —a of Matrimony report that
T? ex North Tews eo<e<i have
estat .siwct m«rttai riMgh-iwaois
ta trie affections >4 the powerful
masc .iifte contingent daring the
kuit <a tfc
At- "og the names <m the cua-jai-
ty h i were e*-I>orothy Jo Haley,
h"s heart was captured by I.t.
Wen - r ftarth of New York « ' t>.
*\ Loretk- B Allan, a captiee of
I.t Mork-y Qiliaap; • Meier; Hen-
dry. prisoner of U Thorn as E
Bi ti .-n*h>p. ex-(te<.rgie Ruth
Mort Aon, now in the custody of Li
( har B Kay m >nd
\a< lUmants weren't, the only
rofyiueropa in this ma>or battle, as
a large number of avilians are
prou ,|r displaying e* North Tessas
tropt es. Claude Howard Mcintosh
">m« through with ax-Peggy Cat*-
nach Tomhty (>*y «tart*Mf the
new ear with ex-Evelyn Morrow
Lynge;-J. F. Cwmiak '*a ried .*-
Cora Mayes (to fNjtro.t, Mich,i as.
hi* (rise;--John E Turner won
K -u Howard.
VIi TOHV LOOMED on a small-
er ssaie in the northern part of
the -a whgr* tolling bells re-
ported the sueesws of six ex North
fexai..* over the famed "weaker
*ex ' Ex Mitchell J Zablotny sur-
rour, 'd Louise Reeves with a one
man > 'anger movement; ex M Sgt
la- Ctmningham overwhelmed
Mar;. Kathleen Lofii* with a for
•nal ■ .Hilary wedding: -ex-Lt. J-x*
< li hanan managed to persuade
JuBisi'a Love to sign a peace treaty
commonly known m a Marriage
License; ex Jack Mitchell, now
study ng dentistry m Dallas, con-
juered Betty Ann Adrian, ex
f'fr James Eugene McCurry,
tJSM' . maneuvered Jane Rich-
ardson down the middle aisle;
and • x-Carl E Sehow Jr run-
ning true to Navy form won
Mary Jane Wilson
EYK8 TURN EAST TO ENG
LAN!' as ex Cpl Ben Sweet, rieph
ew of Miss Mary Sweet of the Eng-
lish faculty, write* his first, view
Warmer dim Don't Brag ...
Even to North Texas In-Law
The ! •*! man at her wedding
gave Kay Wisdom Warmerdam,
Denton sophomore, the first ink
img that she hnd acquired the
world'* champion pole-vaulter as
a brother-in law
Cornelius Warmerdam, the only-
man who ha* ever cleared the
i>ars at I 'i feet or higher 42 times
ha* achieved international fame,
but the Warmerdam* just aren't
bo**ting folk*, explains the newest
member of the family, who wa#
married last summer to Lt. John
Mark Warmerdam. Her husband
wa* a student at the Liaison Pilot
Training Detachment at Chilton
hall at the time of their marriage
and i* now serving a* a liaison
pilot in New Guinea
The fame of his brother "Corny"
was ju.Ht something Lt, Warmer
dam forgot to mention to hi bride,
who was a freshman on the campus
in lSiMl When she met the rest
of the family at their home in
Hanford. Calif. she found that
all of the Warmerdam*, Corny, in
particular, are equally reticent
about the score* of record* which
the "Flying Dutchman" ha*
brought home with hi* skill at
lopping the crow* bar via a bamboo
pole.
Mom Keeps (dippings
' Mom" Warmerdam, whose rel-
atives in Holland have not heen
heard fr"m since the German oc-
cupation, doe* keep a scrapbook
about her famous son, however,
and if visitors really insist, she
displays It with maternal pride,
Kay relates. Both Mr and Mr*. A
D. Warmerdam, parents of a fam
ily which include* three sons and
one laughter, were born in Hol-
land but met and married in
Calif rnia.
Tl 28-year-old champion, who
taught school at Piedmont. Calif ,
befor entering the service, is
now n ensign in the Navy physi-
cal aining program, and he m
state ted at Monmouth. 111.
'< or" • Stay* Fit
Ti Warmerdam* live on a ranch
in th< Han J one hi n valley, and it
was riere Corny kept in trim for
hi* aulting feats, leaping over
hays' icks and moving tractors.
Kay explains He is personally
quiet and retiring, she says, and
new ; aper clippings have to tell
of h * triumph* at the Boston
Gar't' n in 1942, when he vaulted
15 fat, T% inches or of the
moo ntous Mdlrose games one
wee' earlier, when he broke the
oeet record held by a Japa-
The record, 14 ft 3 in,, wa-
•y Sueo Ohe of Keio Univer
who had been liquidated by
Dougla* McArthur'* troups
' a landing attempt on Lu-
iring the fir*t week* of the
only
new
held
sity
( en
darn
z on
war
C«
your
nam-
ter«-
sche
alwu
ing
In
of London—"Mr, Wha ever-h i -
nam*-:- and I took long tour of
th«- Oi>: (-it. of UhmIm aini 'in
luauwir that ae . xpinun te<i munil)
««ai right over me, hut some of it
famii.*r and ail of it was in
tMNMting We went uv Ludgatt
Htll to St. Payi: Cathedral and
didn't mi « a ti '-nament, old btiild-
.ng or landmark on the way,
"W>- met a member of the Na
tiunal Fiie Fighter- Service and
he was so jolly hoepitable that
when we a eked for the direction
to the moat i tombed seetkm he
;u t went along with us to make
•art that we saw the right places
and knew ali about how terrible
the fires had been and what, an
effort it wa* to squelch them
Among the ruin* we *w- a part of
the origin*! London Wall that w*#
built fey the Roman* long, long
ago. Everything here baa a long,
long ago tacked to it . ."
Cpl. Sweet, who has a sister,
Polly, in school here now, is a
weather observer of he Army Air
Corps and ha- been in England
since last Than* -givini!
BEHIND THE BARS, bat mill
not in the brig or the guard house,
are these proud North Texan*
who have recently received pro-
motion* in the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps Gold bar* and wings
have been awarded to Jack Ken
nard Sewell a graduate of the
Marfa Advanced Tw • Engine 1'ilut
School, and Arthur C. Evans Jr ,
IJSMC. a graduate of the Naval
Air Training < enter, Pensacola,
Ft*
Moviewer Say :
later m-aiei bar* of iilver have
replace*! the gold *m«s #f James
1 D< dds of the 102nd Infantry
iuvisifrfi at 1 aoip Swift and of
da H olm J «,rah*n . Group Bpexial
Servk* officer of the 417th Bomber
Group, t* S Air Force*.
NAVY BLUES, take top honors
with the announcement of seven
new ensign, this week from TC.
The anchor men are Clifford Gibbs,
Morn* Wiltaon. <*rl R Cox,
Haro|<t Lawrence Lowdon, I^eslie
Eari Rhoades, Charle* Remus
Brown, and Henry B Cookney,
Brown and < ••ok>ey are both a-
.uting assignment* a* commander
of a Navy gun crew aboard Amer-
ican merchant vessels.
HOLDING DOWN THE HOME
FRONT, North Texas exea range
from war worker* to school marm*
and -cout masters, Mary I ois
Griggs m lead woman in the ta-
s pec lion department
Southern
Aircraft Corporation at Garland
Mi- Ira N Ac ho id is working
for the Santa Fe raihoad In the
telegraph department in Galveston
Mr- Blanche Wylie, who re-
ceived her B S, degree at mid-
term, is to l - librarian at the Al-
bany public school . Mis* Rosa
Wins i* in her third semester a«
teac'her and supervisor of Home
Making in the New Brauofet* High
School Lawrence J. Wells, who
was a scout master while in Denton
m school, has been employed a*
field scout executive for the Fort
Worth area of the Boy Scouts of
A menca.
Deanna Is Still 'My Ideal'
To Fault-Over-Looking Fans
ny is married and has one
son, Markey. who was
I for Kay'* husband. In-
•d in athletic# since hi* high
basketball days. Corny is
s ready to organize a hunt-
arty, *he declare*.
fact, in the manner of the
War «rdam*. Corny prefer* to
tell boat the wild game he ha*
bag* d instead of about the m*dal*
he li ,s brought home
by Clydene Hoke
Ever since Deanna Durbin made
a hit in "One Hundred Men and
a Girl" adolescent g I a m o r
addict,* have imitated her dress
styles, borrowed her hair-dos, and
probably attempted to sing like her
They have gloried in her roles
as the youngest sister in a too-
typical-to-be-lhat American fam-
ily or a* the neglected step-child
who falls in love with her mother's
husbands They have patterned
themselves after her They have
literally grown up on her
Miss Durhin has grown up too.
Now her hair styles are not as
••areluss as they used to seem to be.
Her clother are more sophisticated-
About the only thing about her that
hasn't changed much is her voice
She has gotten married in movies,
Joseph Cotton has actually kissed
her three times but she is still
the favorate of countless thousand*
of average teen agers It just goes
to show that some heroine* are
born a* well as made Deanna Dur-
bin will probably he popular as
long a* she can sing a note, off
key or on.
Not because she can act *he
ha* never really made a good
movie, but because *he represents
American youth a* parents like
to think of it and a* youth itself
thinks it (Hight to be She is a
sort of ideal
"His Butler's Sister" is Deanna'*
thirteenth picture and her second
under the guidance of producer
Felix Jackson and associate pro-
ducer Frank Shaw. Shaw is the
only person still associated with
Deanna who ha* worked with her
on all her film* In thi* film she
sing* "Turandot," "In the Spirit
of the Moment," and When You're
Away."
The story of "Hi* Butler's Sis-
ter" seem* merely to have been
written to hang those tunes on to.
Where gap* occur in the film*,
music fill* in.
Briefly the plot show* Deanna
as a singing half-sister of a but
ler i Pat O'Brien I whom *he he
lieves to I* rich. O'Brien'* em-
ployer i F ranchot Tone) is a noted
composer and Ihranna get* a job
m his house as a new maid, hoping
that he'll hear her singing some-
time above the banging of the
dishes in the kitchen. Deanna sings
and dishes bang but Noted Com-
poser Tone decide* to go to Maine.
Luckily, he changes hi* mind at
the last minute and falls in love
with Deanna instead.
The funniest scene in the pic-
ture is one in which Deanna think*
she is singing to a compoaer on a
train and he turn* out to be a
girdle salesman. The fade-out kiss
between Mis* Durbin and Tone is
the longest on record in film his-
tory. It lasts 28 stories. Starting
when the couple enter* an elevator
on the ground floor, it doesn't end
until they arrive at Tone's pent-
house at the top of the building.
OLD ACQUAINTANCE
Coming to the Texa* next Sat-
urday is Warner Brothers' "Old
Acquaintance" with Bette Davis
and Miriam Hopkins. It's Bette
Davis' first picture *ince "Wrateh
On the Rhine" and although I
haven't seen it. I've heard that
she does better in it than she did
in the other film. The picture is
written and directed by Vincent
Sherman.
Bette Davis plays the part of
a novelist who writes well although
not very profitably. She returns to
her home town as the guest of her
childhood friend. Miram Hopkins,
who is happily married but who
envies Miss Davis' career. In the
course of her story Bette falls
in love with two men. marries
neither, and Miram Hopkins be-
come* the writer of fiest sellers.
MR LUCKY
At the college show Saturday
night will be RKO's "Mr. Lucky"
starring Cary Grant and Laraine
Day In the picture Grant is cast
as a gambler who turn* patriotic
through the encouragement of
Mm* Day. I liked this movie.
Everybody I've talked to who has
seen it liked it. If you haven't
seen it and have the chance to.
don't miss it.
AN BMHUAMT SKVKH FORtiKTS . .MUCH HAVE I TRAVELED . . . '
ZPuvtciMn
It if< truism to state that every
thoughtful man and woman in the United
'«<Jay Is tm ing iwriaus considera-
tion to the structure of the post-war
world. . . Ft ha* been estimated that there
are some 1.17 organisation? and socMitien,
to aay nothing of individual**, which are
busily asgsffed in drawing up Mwprint
of the world an it should be reconstructed
when the guns have been silenced.ACP.
It will no doubt be raining tonight. I
maktt thi* statement not because the al-
manac makes «uch a prediction 1 do not
suffer with liver pains and therefore do
not own an almanac but because as far
back a* I can remember, it has rained
on the night of the annual Kiwanis Mins-
trel.
As far back as I can remember, and they
do not call me elephant ears for nothing.
Rut even if it should be raining, go any-
way. Proceeds from this traditional pro-
duction go to the underprivileged children
of Denton, hut the show would be a suc-
cess without the added incentive. This
year, for instance, Winona Tullos. Vir-
ginia Caldwell. Jane Pollock, Polly Ternli.
"Scottie" Lowe. Mary Betty Miller, and
Betty Penrv will lie on hand in can-can
garb, and other North Texans also will
m fwturad.
A large percentage of the Minstrel per-
formers will be smeared with burnt cork
in expoacd areas, but the can-can line will
be excuatd from the treatment as the
areas in question are quite extensive and
cork i# cork even if slightly singed.
■Ms ft ilnt rate Im wm l OHft
Lt. McNeir Takes Navy-Conducted Cook's Tour of World
To Vttt Eight Waning Countri— Is Eight iwiHul Mmithf
raveled, though
of gold—eight
"Much have I traveled,
not in the realm*
countries, province*, territories,
protectorate*, or what you will in
the eight month* since 1 left the
state*, and Thomas Cook himself
probably couldn't do much worse,"
write. Lt. W f. McNeir, t'SNR,
aboard a *hip on duty somewhere
in the Mediterranean war area
Dr McNeir was a member of the
Teachers College English depart
ment until ItMl. when he applied
for and received a commission tn
the United Stales Naval Reserve
In a letter to the English depart
ment here Lt. McNeir wrKes that
for some time hi* ship was in Hi-
serte, and Lt. McNeir and his com-
panions became familiar with its
and
wreckage."
"Bissrte made a
pre**ion on me because it was there
that I got my first look at the
horrible effects of total war," he
writes. "Reason staggers at the
*ight of a city crushed, extinguish-
ed, stamped out as Hiaerte was.
The original population of 25,000
people had vanished, utterly dia-
jtersed. gome no doubt escaped to
Tunis, Sousse, or Sfax before the
final blows fell and others may
have gotten away into the hill* ami
olive groves to comparative safety;
tint thousands were trapped under
the Allied avalanche of bombs and
*&•!!*, to die like vermin in their
inadequate shelter* in cellars or
ditches dug in back yards."
From Biterte hit ship moved In-
to the Sicily battle
which Li McNeir •
ing description ■ "la Sicily we i
a wt$ *•!•* aadalHfti'!
the e
Gels
*ti!l
the
if at Licata In contrast to
jm> of establishing beachhead*
va* the fierce fighting around
where German tank*
lugging it out within a
de-toes of the coastal
•cond and third days of tne
<m. a la Salerno a couple of
«i* is later.
"i tr landing boat* made the
the
r
had
War
awTa
according to plan, and im-
A „ 1 „ L..1 *-■ «L-i>
tea; out wntfi iiw > wucn^
and started to disembark,
talisn* seat ap flare* that
1 the scene into day and then
d fire from both tides with
7 mm. Alpine guns that they
ought the Austrian* with in
I War I. Thirteen
were *hot up in a
- there oa oat Httie beach. Nat
sal 1 aL. • evWiCfcAi11AbTI
• I) nOWcVfit OKI WW
As an example of the Italian at-
titude toward the American land-
ing partie*. Lt. McNeir wrote the
story told about an Italian captain
who surrendered promptly to th<-
first American* he met and then
a*ked for permission to go back
into the wood* and get hi* bagicairc.
He went, unguarded, and returned
in a few minutes. When question-
ed, he complained hitterly that the
Allies were behind schedule on the
invasion, said he had been packed
and waiting for two weeks to sur-
render, and now his clothe* had
been damaged from hein* left out
in the open so long,
On a visit to Lieata Lt McNeir
met an Italian about 20 years '.id
who was a school teacher. When in-
a teacher, the Italian took him
in his school. In every
room the wall* were decorated with
Fascist posters that no on* had
bnthered to remove—load-mouthed
reminders of a lop-sided educa-
tional system The Italian pointed
to bellicose picture of Mussolini,
then made the universal throat-
slit.tin t Kesture. 'How about the
king?' I said, indicating a portrait
of Victor Emanuel. 'Oh, no, the
king i* fine: he is a *reat man; he
i* the kinr,' th«i Italian answered."
"From Palermo I've seen the
■ krlH4ai.ua of Pan flaM{ iftjMft
les* sands stretching oat on either
side of the Sue* Canal, the shallow
neck of the Red Sen where Mo*aa
probably led the ehildrer. of l*r*eS
across at low tide; the dry wad is of
the Nubian De««rt; Aden, wlwre
iii'i': rictft* aa&rt •« • *. * ■■ ■ tfaa m<M*f
<*« ■* iwatti. ami 'ifnftl" rf llllj
rather than at Port Said." his
letter
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