Show case of the nazi reception or misleading propaganda by B BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington last month there was a memorandum on my desk from the department of the army addressed to all former war correspondents subject army day 1948 it suggested that perhaps I 1 had a war story that stood out in my mind that I 1 would like to relate as an army day feature the rhe memorandum didn dian t state which wai was preferred if any but I 1 supposed that it didn dian t matter so long as it wasn gasn t the next one I 1 reported the landing on the normandy beaches the battle of the bulge and many of the other important events of the last aar war from a microphone in washington my connection with world war I 1 was less vicarious my experiences during earl er conflicts such as san juan gettysburg chapultepec yorktown and hastings are a little hazy therefore I 1 decided that the de apartment part ment of the army might permit I me to relate an ad venture which pro vided a little corn WA edy relief in 1939 in the nervous in known as the phony war before the r real e a 1 storm broke it w went e n t something like this it happened at the vv german air and A 2323 naval base shortly after britain and france had de dared war on germany american correspondents still had consider able freedom and I 1 had managed to wrangle permission to interview ew the test first british fliers shot down by the germans I 1 did but that isn t this story for all the careful german prepa preps rat ons tor for war there was still a certain amount of contusion confusion in the office of propaganda under the high ly efficient father of lies dr goeb bels but I 1 managed to get the use of a german army transport plane to fly me with a german radio man from berlin to he war was roaring westward into poland and the great tern tem airfield in berlin was all but deserted when we se arrived before dawn and were escorted with alacrity and not a little wonder which al ment to our transport ready was warming up we had been up all night and my ray coll colleague eague immediately tell fell asleep on a p ie equipment As soon of parachute as dawn broke I X busied myself watching the anti aircraft batteries in the fields surrounding berlin fields surrounded by ew gun nits in complacent cud chewing cows coves T v pre like the rest of the be niu e on an unaware of what th the fuehrer was about bout to bring down on them thern for some reason we flew low al most scratching our wings on the church steeples at last my corn coin panion awoke we were approach ing the airfield it was a lively spot As we drew nearer we could see a detachment of marines which came to attention as we approached A halt half dozen staff cars were drawn up in a semi circle balanced by blue jackets and ground personnel of the air force we re lucky I 1 my companion re marked some big brass must be coming we 11 see a parade no other plane was visible though as we circled a couple ot of times over the docks thick with sh ps including the long lost europa back on her dash from Mur mansk finally we landed a couple of yards from the military formation which by now was drawn up at attention we were a little embarrassed tor for we were in plain sight of the imposing array and were afraid we might suddenly bump into the visit ng d unitary and we were hatless and unshaven I 1 let my companion go ahead there was no place to go however but in the direction of the naval de tach ment and their commanding of ticer it later developed he was the commander of the base a tall slim correct naval officer perhaps a little nervous though we were too nervous ourselves to realize it at the mo roo biant we advanced like pups approaching pro aching a porcupine A corn mand rang out the troops snapped to present arms the officer sa and drew a manuscript from his tunic something new to me in military procedure all I 1 could think of was a painting of general washington reading a message to his troops and I 1 always alway 5 had thought that was a flight of the art st s fancy the officer began read ng it was a message of welcome all right finally my companion he was half engish engi sh which may exola n his fortitude interrupted there must be some mistake we are two radio correspondents the commander bowed looked abashed glanced over our heads toward the plane but where are the other gentle men he wanted to know there are just two of us we ed but the minister of propaganda who is representing him we were notified by the department a cial plane the truck tor for the bag gage PI we explained briefly and waited for the skies to fall they didn dian t the officer continued his speech without even dropping his monocle lust just to be sure editing it slightly to make it apply as he went there was no question that he thought we were going to be certainly OUGHT to be goebbels the formation melted away the truck which had been requested to transport sound equipment started to load all but one of the staff cars slunk away there was only one red face the air airi force orce commander commanders s and he felt not embarrassment but rage this was a purely military field and I 1 had held up the german war effort tor for halt a morning thus contributing my bit to allied victory even before america amen ca was in the war for the rest the only significant memory except tor for my interview with those british boys was the questioning by the german officers obviously they d t share the corn assurance of victory of the nazi higher ups they remembered world war I 1 today the greatest danger to the peace is the pos sibil ty that the will the purpose the power of the united states will not be understood in m tune time by tha the russian command that they will tail fall to reco ze the risk of self annihilation they are taking in the r cold war as the kaiser and H tier fa led to realize it I 1 roses but never A spray of yew there are many good garden books and I 1 for one had about come to the on that the f nal word on garden ng had been wr aten when along came the vonan woman vo nan s home corn coin pan on garden book P F coll er and son corp corporal oraton on publisher new york C ty with many new angles ed ted by john C wister d rector ot of the arthur hoyt scott horticultural foundation swarthmore mora college this book speaks with au it is correct it states on page to speak of narcissus and also correct to use the engi engl sh term daf todil for all species and varieties ol 01 narcissus there is confusion about this a popular impression being that daffodils are the yellow kind and narcissus the white kinds there also has been confusion about the name jonquil all the daffodils of the jon qu I 1 group are distinguished by then narrow garlic like foliage ad and by their characteristic bright yellow I 1 color which is the same shade throughout the flower all or of f this interested me mightily as I 1 had just been studying a photograph of a clump of narcissus in a popular magazine magazines s I 1 name this picture contest the leaves on the plant shown were broad though the answer given by the editor was I 1 jonquil I 1 obviously even contest editors may err the narcissus discussion is a sam pie of ed tor wister f s directness in this new garden book and there is more like it on every page not the least interesting writing in th s book is the foreward by the well loved liberty hyde bailey dean of all gar gardeners deneri whose accomplish ments need ro eulogy here another intrigue ng feature is the discuss on and diagramming of va rious geography geo graph e areas accord ng to the r geological and clemat c condi conch eions most of us have been frost bitten too often for comfort by blind ly following the usual maps additional add data and measuring ceasur ng t es have been added to long estabi shed material in mak ng a broader and yet more personal pre on of his problems to the gardener in any given sect on of the un ted states and canada the net result is the charif cat on of many heretofore vague statements it would be unfair to other ex cellena books to say that this is the best garden book yet published in some ways it excels all others bul st 11 there thue are other volumes which may contain more informs tion on specific subjects perhaps fie the way to s ze up this 1000 1 page volume is to say that re gard less of whatever other garden ing books you own you need this one too it if you seek fresh angles on your favorite hobby with its t f ne cover and paper stock its 24 photographic pages in full color its 56 pages of black and white illustrations and more than how to do it pictures the worn wom an s home companion garden boob book is completely satisfying |