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Show fied "to hear such sentiments from an American civilian living in the comparative material and spiritual spirit-ual opulence that exists today in the United States." The writer says that one might put the complainant com-plainant down "as a 'crackpot' were it not for the fact that other persons, in fits of depression from hard work, shortages, fears for loved ones abroad and gloomy weather have been heard to make similar remarks." It is amazing to realize that throughout the United States there are people grumbling about rationing, ra-tioning, war strategy, travelling difficulties and such minor and, so far as the war is concerned, trivial matters. The best cure for such chicken-hearted Americans would be a trip to Hitler's Germany Germa-ny so the grumblers could discover discov-er how the Nazi regime operates. GERMAN PRISONER SHOCKED AT AMERICAN IDEAS The story is told that when Douglas Dou-glas MacArthur, II, nephew of the General, reached Washington after fifteen months of internment in Germany, one of the first persons he met at a party tried to tell him that the United States isn't much different from Germany and that President Roosevelt is just another anoth-er Hitler. Mary Hornaday, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, says that young MacArthur was horri- |