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J. E Swanson of Minneapolis writes: "It is
about time that Garbo be given a decent role and
Grant and Alfred Hitchcock are going ahead with
their plans for a modem "Hamlet" o-
Their idea has already evoked the ire of dis-
ciples of the bard, as well as 37 other people who
claim to have originated the notion of doing the
classic play in modern dress. But the director
and star, who are now working on "Notorious,”
hope to start the picture by fall, if their writers
can produce a good enough script
’TVs as good a psychological thriller as any to-
day." Hitchcock told me "Iha main trouble is
that there are too many deaths at the end. We
would have to kill some of them off-sere n, be-
cause we couldn’t have so many corpses cluttering
up the place.”
The director said Hamlet’s father might be an
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Dangerous Discontent
‘PERE is more than homesickness be-
* hind the sorry picture of disconent,
low morale and vanishing discipline among
American roops in Manila. A deep resent-
met is also evident, which apparently
arises from a number of conflicting stories
and half truths as to why the men aren’t
being sent home.
A service newspaper, the Daily Pacifi-
can, may have struck at the root of the
trouble with this illuminating statement:
“We were briefed on our mission during *
the days of combat. Let us be briefed
now!”
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ANALINOTHENEW8
Food Is Available In
Spain—In Blackmarket
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP World Traveler
MADRID, Jan. 17.—It would be easy for the
“ visitor in Madrid to leap to the conclusion
Spain is a land flowing with milk and honey,
there’s such a plentitude of the good things of
life availabe in the capital—at a price.
People of means are so accustomed to abun-
dance that amazement was expressed by residents
with whom I was lunehing in a deluxe hotel be-
cause the usual succulent beefsteaks weren’t avail-
able for that meal. The menu was loaded with
all sorts of other fqods, but it happens there’z a
beef shortage
What Was true of food is also largely true of
both necessities and luxuries in other lines. In
short, up to the time Mrs. Mack and I left New
York at the end of November, probably no city
in America had recovered sufficiently from war
strain to produce such luxurious meals as Madrid
can serve.
But Spain also has her troubles and her pros-
perity is spotty Among other things, the cost of
living has risen so high that people of small
means are having a hard time.
On the whole Spain’s relative economic position
among the European countries is good She ranks
well among the other neutral states of Switzer-
land. Portugal and Sweden.
Potentially, Spain may be better off than pres-
ent conditions indicate. Last year’s fierce drought
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not only resulted in heavy crop failures but
emptied reservoirs and thus deprived the country
of much water power. Furthermore, the nation’s
transport systems are run down, and heavy im-
ports are needed.
Favorable weather this year will do much to
improve the economic situation.
The blackmarket is having a field day in Spain.
Just as it is in other European countries.
If you have the cash you can buy most anything
you want. A first class lunch or dinner is from
three to five dollars, and you can spend a lot
more if you add a few frills
If you are keeping house your eggs will cost
from $2 to $2.20 per dozen, butter $2 20 a pound,
rice <a staple food here) 60 cents a pound, veal
$1.30 a pound, pork $1.25, lamb $130 and so on.
Clothing isn’t so bad, for you can get a good
tailor made suit for 1100 and a ready made one
for from $30 to $50.
Middle priced shoes are about $19 and first class
ones are $30
Funny Business
HE NEEDED "INTELLECT'
On the contention that he was
an intellectual, Poland’s official
hangman threatened to resign a
few years ago when he was classi-
fied as a "physical worker."
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get by the censors."
mere were "typewriter states-
men among the press corps. Some
did write "mauldin stuff" about the
common soldier, although Pyle was
not one.
But both at headquarters and at
the front there were many hard-
hitting newsmen who wore out
their hearts or risked their lives
living up to Mencken's own dic-
tum that "good reporting is an ef-
fort to get the truth and tell it.
no matter who gets hurt.”
They wrote boldly, critically and
fully.
A lot of it died under the Ar-
my’s blue pencil, but there was
enough got through and it is pos-
sible to answer Mencken’s com-
plaint that he doesn’t "even know
yet what generals got licked” In the
Battle of the Bulge.
Those of us who were there re-
ported at the time that It was a
German by the name of Karl Ru-
dolf Gerd von Rundstedt.
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ther British imperialism in Java and to
help Chiang Kai-shek defeat the Chinese
Communists. They were given handbills
which asked: “Do you want to be used as
pressure for compulsory military training
legislation?”
There is a threat of real harm to do-,
mestie accord, American policy and, ulti-
mately, world peace if this situation is al-
lowed to’ continue and develop. It is up
to the Army to straighten it out, quickly,
frankly and fairly.
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An auto salesman is the only one who
can make a car climb a hill backwards in
neutral.
Carving is a lost art, says a Chicago
chef. He hasn’t been reading the police
news lately.
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on his merits.
He is gone, now, most of him A
few thousand remain. The 88th Di-
vision still stands guard in Vene-
zia-Giulia in northern Italy, dis-
puted between Italy and Yugosla-
via. Other troops provide garrisons
for supply installations at Naples
and Leghorn, for the Naples "rep-
pie depple" which processes the GI
departing for home, MTOUSA
headquarters at Caserta, the Rome
area command and the Allied Com-
mission.
The rest are gone. But their trail
still lies broad and plain to see up-
on the land.
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By john p Mcknight
ROME—P— The GI is gone from
I Italy—most of him. anyway—
but his trail still lies broad and
plain to see upon th land.
Where he passed, he is remem-
bered The girls and the little chil-
dren especially, remember. But all
of Italy remembers something
of him.
With the kids, it is still “Hello,
Joe," and "Chocolate Joe?" and
"Sigretti, Joe?" as they beseige the
few Yanks who linger on.
The girls still hum the tunes he
taught them—the "new tunes" of
last year and the year before and
the oldies like "Tea for Two” and
"Stardust"—and dance the Jitter-
bug with the fervor he imparted
and say, "Hello, Baby," with the
lilt he taught them.
Some of the girls went to Amer-
ica as wives, and more yet will go
as Wives or fiancees. Some. left
behind for keeps, think tenderly or
bitterly of the lads who vanished,
one by one, as redeployment took
them home. And some—indiscreet
and unlucky—have substantial sou-
venirs in the shape of children
born out of wedlock.
The countryside of Italy, where
armies have marched and counter-
marched time out of mind, still
shows the marks of the GI’s vic-
torious progress up the peninsula.
Cassino and Oisterna and Vena-
fro and Carrara, where the marble
comes from. and ancient Roman
Gaeta bear mute testimony, with
their rubble and ruins, to the ter-
rible destructiveness of the weapons
he brought to war.
Yet he was also, when he had
the time. constructive. Motoring
Italians ride over highways whose
war damage the GI repaired, and
cross streams on bridges he built
to replace those the retreating
Germans or his own artillery and
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Hamlet ForMovie
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LOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Despite pro-
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By HAL BOYLE
A ANILA, Jan. 17.—(A— During
IVI the battle for Tunisia a skin-
ny little war correspondent weigh-
ing 112 pounds was called on the
carpet by a chunky American head-
quarters general in Algiers.
"You’re little better than a trai-
tor to your country,” the general
said.
The small man’s crime was that
he had told fully the horrors of
battle and their emotional impact
on tired. dirty men.
The brass hats who worry about
such matters thought this slender,
middle-aged writer was hurting
American morale. They were wrong
He turned out to be one of the Ar-
my's best morale builders.
That was Ernie Pyle, killed later
covering his fifth campaign.
It comes as something of a sur-
prise now to read less than a year
after Pyle went to his grave that
Henry Louis Mencken, the Oracle
of Baltimore, believes correspond-
ents were "a sorry lot" and did a
poor job of covering World War II
)Eds note: Mencken said, how-
ever, that Pyle did a good job on
the kind of task he set himself to
do.)
Mencken, dean of American Intel-
ligentsia, soundly observes that it
is "a primary duty of reporters to
tell the truth until it becomes dan-
gerous."
But in concluding that "there
wasn't much of that,” he is less
than fair to a good number of able
and conscientious newspapermen
who lie buried in soldier cemeter-
ies today because they never quit
trying to be a good reporter.
Mencken says of war correspond-
ents generally that they were “ei-
ther typewriter statesmen turning
out dope stuff drearily dreamed up
or sentimental human interest
scribbles turning out mauldin stuff
about the common soldier easy to
NOTIOE TO T PUBLIC
errqpepuis refleotton upon the abarecter, repu-
Qocetending of any frm, individual or gorpo-
• wUl be gladly corkected upon being called to
puhHher attentiop.
publtahen are not responatbie for cope ‘qmt-
k tpggvaphieal errors or any unintentional
■ that oeuy other than to comet in nut
Lattetsti brought to iietr etintion. AU ad-
ring orders are accepted on this basis only.
RED RYDER
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No one blames the soldier or sailor ov-
erseas for wanting to come home. Com-
bat veteran or hot, the man with months
of foreign service deserves the speediest
• posible return to civilian life. It is the
duty of the Army and Navy of the whole
country to see that he gets it.
But unfortunately there must be Ameri-
can troops in Europe and the Pacific re-
gions for a long time to come. The fight-
ing has stopped, but turbulence and un-
rest remain. The men of the occupying
forces have an extremely important task
— toperform in securing the victory so dear-
ly,won.
She Army has made it clear to those at
heme that voluntary enlistment and Se-
lective Service are not now providing
enough men to handle this occupation job.
Thus the rate of discharge for men in the
service must be slowed up for a time. It
has explained that. the precarious and
volatile state of peace in the Pacific makes
necessary the presence of a sizeable force
ingthe strategic base of Manila. and that
our soldiers are there to guard the peace,
not the Filipinos.
But has the Army explained this fully
tothe men involved? Are they briefed for
their peacetime mission as fully as they
wire for combat? Apparently not, judg-
ing from the service paper quoted above
and from other statements by soldiers in
Manila. At any rate, something has hap-
pened to turn part of a mighty fighting
force of superior spirit and strength into ________
an army of protesting, demonstrating mal- the Ehost might end.up.a ou.a board,” he added,
contents, xl x . . Leaving no stone unturned, the movies are now
ne of the worst aspects of an obviously resorting to opera as a source for musical pic-
bad situation is that the soldiers* griev- tures. MOU Producer Arthur Freed is planning an
aces are playing right into the hands of extravanganza which will use an opera as the
the domestic Cmmunists, whose latest basls for 1x501 plot and music
line i8 “bring the boys home”—a solici- Wonder why Barbara Stanwyck is waxing so
tilde which no one can be SO naive as to uppity with the press Some of my best friends
take at face value: are newspapermen Ray Milland will play The
'Soldiers were Asked nt n Manila mass Last Man in the World." That sounds like fun
domers were asKed at a manna .mass ..George Jessel leaves to toastmaster the Al
meeting if they wanted to be used to fur- Smith Memorial dinner in. New York next Tues-
became too shy to face a movie camera again . . .
Ilona Massey's mother is trying to lure her back
to Hungary with promises of home-cooked goulash.
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' daily, off Uncle Sam or at prices
geared to his pocketbook, off such
food as the wealthiest Italians
could not then buy and most Ital-
ians had forgotten existed. Many
of them felt it to be their constitu-
tional right to get drunk when on
three-day pass and, full of wine,
or grappa," grew unruly when
crossed
Yet on the other side of the led-
ger, there was much.
He was generous to a fault. He
coul4 refuse the kids nothing. He
could not bear the sigiit of needless
suffering and, when he could, he
did something about it.
He gave a new meaning to the
Italian concept of democracy with
his casual ignoring of the stratin-
cations of Italian society and his
implicit insistence on taking a man
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Ike Tells Why Army
Must Slow Discharges
By JAMES MARLOW
WrASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — (AP)— Here is a quick
” look at General Elsenhower’s' explanation,
given to Congress, for the Army’s slow-down in cites. .
releasing men. .Here, , as everywhere, he put
1. The Army has released far more—since the oky into the everyday speech
war with Japan and Germany ended—than it had of the Italians, who learned also
planned. 10 talk famillarly about his "MP’s."
2. If it kept up that rate, it would run out of and "APO’S" and "PXs," pronounc-
men necessary to carry out the Army's job, ing the letters as he did. In fact,
3 Replacements for those overseas veterans— his sturdy refusal to learn the lan.
through the draft or volunteering—have not been guage forced all who would deal
fast enough . with him—bartenders, waiters, po-
The general said licemen. sales clerks—to get some
“If we were to continue shipping men home at smattering of English.
the rate we reached during the past few months. He. left much of his transport,
about April we would have nothing left but a His jeep, told as surplus property,
woefully inadequate number of volunteers—we now speeds carabinieri to the scene
.nvADC AA would literally have run out of army’.’’ of disorder, or hauls UNRRA work-
191BAKAGV Yet, in order to keep discharges up to a high ers about their relief business His
-rpN . - Ar • ' । rate, the general said the Army has done these locomotves, soon, will ply Italy’s
nlhe Kecord-uhronici has made every effort to get volunteers to He left his clothing, or many
E ? - - including R M Bams replace veterans abroad, pleces of it. Rare is the Italian to-
WiETHOdae’L 2 It has told General MacArthur in Japan and day who does not wear one or more
Manu’p Arodav’Ar. tn attend a General McNarney in Germany to cut their scl- GI items—shoes, field jackets, shirt,
he iAuiiiidPEwmLeFEr"commeree rues. dier requirements to the bone sometimes the entire uniform sans
" “ s It has cut the training of nw men in this insignia.
country from 17 to 13 weeks. He left a nation-wide preference
He gave this explanation for the excitement for the cigarettes he smoked, and
over demobilisation: gave away, and used for tips--and.
Nugent Fitzgerald of Fort Worth was 1. The end of the war started an emotional wave not infrequently, sold on the black
sd As member of the board of regents of to get men out of the Army. market.
E of Industrial Arts 2. The “almost incredible speed*" of the War And, it must be said, he left some
• ha and tore Tom Harwell of Banger Department in releasing men between the defeat stepped-on toes, some ruffled feel-
“‘T of Japan and Christmas. ings, some injured vanity, even
iinn in Fenton Tuaendav totaled General Eisenhower gave these figures to show some active dislike.
bles chre-t of the 1 was.to sesson the Army’s speed in demobilisation: Despite the Army’s efforts to
i win the first anme under the TIAA It had planned to det 2,500,000 men go between soften hla impact upon the heritors
ag 37 to u Sept. 1 and Dee. $1, IMS. Actually. in that time of the civilisation of ancient Rome,
E wnd tore LRov non N it released 4,165,000, or 1,665,000 more than its the GI was often, by Italian stan-
day,agir.t27 plane called for. F „ • dards, rude, crude, inconsiderate.
MMSi and son. Francis mb in W- Although, since Germany fell last May, the Army Ho was, too often, consciously the
inn. to attend funeral services for has sreleed- 6000,000 ofsthe 8,300000 men it had oongueror; he was too sure that
everything American was good #nd
y the Am will have released an- everything not American bad.
— ___________ ___________men wo (Were in the Army when He gave unintentional offense,
liy Dunbar Koda and Getmany quit. too, because he lived when he was
rwlw: "TT TMm »y neat July i tiie Army.will have left not miter amesson thertat rthe
esterday, W; low to- only 500/000 of the ,00,000 it had to service last land. The best hgtela_were sst aside
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