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Show 13,000 miles awav IjTTW me nothing. 1 ,,,,,, XJ-o,i ' Everything uh.U ZMff .spells quality unsu.Das:". .11 rest of this tirjjd oly ' here, which 1-,. . ,., , ricl much of. You uticl I u il! M In USA", and I hop . wPK ins to despoil t,,at bono? V Furthermore, ,1!:v "ur V , has any political tend" viating from those w"& constitution, is not entity E K respect shown through K 1 before many month, r "Just another lonesome I u town GI who A.isa huMm-tipple huMm-tipple a nice cold tn.n. ..W1 Chicago Charlie!" ',h onH are accordingly scorned anJI mentioned todiajj . ?h bucket heel rotated by sweep, ! method old as Moses Hundreds Hund-reds (hump-backed, Holy cows un h thcr.thither-and yon un-m un-m lest ed The vast majority of theie litth P'P1-' a,L ve0etarT an and very poorly developed, ' .; being taken in life and in death- hundreds of bushels be-in be-in was'ed to feed spirits of the world beyond, That .s the mm the wholesale starvation. A Hindu's idealogy calls tor a Grange allegiance to animals Mos en. and Sikh Princes, levied ers. Farming as we Know i : u practiced in very few cases, and hen only under European supervision- . Four seasons do not exist hen in the jungle. We have the Winer Win-er season and the Monsoon, or rainy season. During January ahd February, three blanket, are needed to keep a GI warm. Out Bashas ol split bamboo are very crude, open air affairs, but they e the only home we ve known i for two long years, so we have ' become used to them. British withdrawal from India In-dia would be disastrous. Britain owes the Indian army to the Moslem and Sikh Princes levied much the same as the German Hessians of revolutionary war days. Without this army, Britain would, in my opinion, have had Ghandi's hordes throwing open India's gates to the yellow-bellied founders of "The Greater East - Asian Co - prosperity ! Sphere." Jap skeletons on the Burma battlefields are a satisfy- ' ing, though ugly sight take it from me! "America is a land blessed with the envy and admiration of all. 1 This foreign home land of mine, ing foreign interests. I know nothing of their religion, though I've seen their "Towers of Sil ence" upon which they place their dead to be devoured b h vultures. Of course you ve heart on the other hand, of the HmrJU Burning Ghats", where Sa die wood (very costly) is used to cremate the richer Hindus. I v seen both of these body desecra-tions desecra-tions (desecration from a Christian Chris-tian viewpoint) and they aren t nice to watch. The Pharsee WO" men, they say, are the most beautiful beau-tiful in 'India. Their men choose only one a pleasing circumstance circum-stance when you think of the harems among other big shots, but don't ever ask a GI if he has seen a concubine, those dames are personal property! Most well-to-do Indians of the merchant class, be thev Hindu or Moslem, on the other hand, choose only one wife Holy gosh! Ain t one enough? "The American army makes its own life over here. Ice-plants, coco cola plants and even a brewery are ooerated by GI s. we eat Indian flour in our bread to some extent, also we eat potatoes, pota-toes, cabbages and radishes produced pro-duced in India, other than that, most of our chow is produced, processed and canned in the U S Of course, we in the forward areas get very little fresh stuff, for it would spoil enroute from the government supervised farms I've had ice cream on a couple of occasions but coke is as foreign for-eign to me as the Taj Mahal and the Indian princess or whom it 1 was built. Don't mention corn-1 corn-1 willy to me, or I'll blow my top! "It will be a vast relief when j all Americans vacate this land of brown-skinned people; a relief re-lief only to the Americans- I may add. I can feel a great pity for the many Anglo-Indian women wo-men (1 2 British) who are em-j em-j ployed in U.S. army posts in the I cities, for they live a life of dis-! dis-! honor in the eyes of their people, - FIGHTIN' BINGHAMITES REPORT The following letter, which gives a good description of India was received this week by the Victory Flag Society from Cpl j Arthur V. Mangrum: "Feeling in a serious mood this morning I thought I would enlighten en-lighten you a little about this land of India. "India, from the west coast to the India-Burma frontier, is very much the land God completely forgot. From the torrid reaches of the Sind desert to the muddy, filthy Ganges river with Calcutta Cal-cutta at the mouth; and thence northward and east up the Bhra-maputre Bhra-maputre at the source of which near the Burma border is where the lonely GI has existed for almost two years. "There is a better side. Even here, in this hot and humid climate, clim-ate, we can see on clear days the snow-capped peaks of the, Himalayas. Hima-layas. Here, of course, is the eastern extremity of the moun-tain moun-tain range. Extending westward I through the Mt. Everest region to the fabulous land of Kashmir; from there we come to the Khy-ber Khy-ber pass Peshdwar being the last vestige of civilization before entering this wild, murderous frontier country of sword-wielding tribesmen who live off plunder plun-der from captured camel caravans. cara-vans. "The people of this conglomerate conglomer-ate land are what makes it what it is. In a population pf over 330,-000.000, 330,-000.000, the vast majority are Hindus. Hinduism supposedly signifies sig-nifies religion, but not as we know it. It is a caste system much like that practiced in the European Euro-pean feudal society during the dark ages. A Maharaja is king of his domain the Raja his prince. Among these high-caste Hindus exists a tolerance only for their own kind. The lowest Serf class Hindu may not touch either food, drink or person, or in any way despoil or contaminate contamin-ate the Caste type Hindu. In other oth-er words, these "untouchables" as they are known, are nothing. Among their millions arose a great leader I forget his name. He was educated in England and j is universally known for his bril-1 bril-1 liance. He is trying to form a union of his millions with the Moslem league, to perpetuate a balance of power against Mahat-ma Mahat-ma Ghandi's Indian Congress. Ghandi is in control of a propaganda propa-ganda machine unparalled ex- cept to that of the late Nazi rat factory in Germany. The 90,000,-000 90,000,-000 Moslems want to form an independent in-dependent government and take in the "lUttouchables", but by Ghandi's skillful technique of setting his 1,000 odd Pagan Gods onto these 80,000,000 or so superstitious super-stitious "untouchables" such a merger is impossible. A mess, isn't it? The other one-God worshippers besides the Moslems, are a group of six million Sikhs a sturdy, intelligent and handsome race whose men are the traffic cops, policemen, and taxicab owners of peace-time India. During the war, this group supplies the Indian In-dian army with 18 per cent of its personnel. "The Pharsees, however, are the great industriaists; their interests include the hydro-electric plants, airplane factories, automobile plants and virtually all India's industrialism exclud- |