Show The European Beat If 1 you ou want to 10 se see lb the Am American in Euro Euro- Europe I reign foreign ON correspondents s and them in the Sliva Savoy Grill in tn you'll in find Lon London on at al 21 Rue d de ds Bern in Paris Pods Ih the American Press club in Berlin Bedin Ih the Park hotel in Frankfurt the Hotel J de la Ia Paix in G Geneva lh the ibs Grand Gran Bretagne Bre- Bre tagne lagne in Athens an and Ih the ibs Stam Stampa 4 Eslera Estera Estera Es- Es tera lera in Rome If 1 you au stand close Iou enough to 10 their elbows lh the chances are lh they'll b be talking about The preparations of the Swiss general staff for a Russian airborne attack in the dead of winter whiter It may never come but every Swiss male rule rifle within wIthin with wIth- over 16 has an issue army-issue in reach The way General Clay Is working himself hImsel Into an on early grave grave grave-at at his desk before eight In the morning until midnight when he goes home with a sheaf of papers in hi his briefcase He not only administers U. 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S policy in Germany hes he's got to make It up ashe ashe as ashe he goes along Washington gives him himas as much guidance as a seeing-eye seeing dog with cataracts and a broken leg The growing exhaustion of our air force Corce pilots who've been flyIng fly fly- lag Ing the Berlin route since June 21 They see Yaks in their sleep as well as In the air Lt Gen Curtis LeMay LcMay the lift commander who made his reputation tation by never asking his pilots to do anything ho he wouldn't do himself Every few days he heS S walks out to the circle like any second loule and flies a freight plane to Berlin just Berlin just to soc soo for himself how the thing is working The Semitism anti-Semitism of Ernest BevIn Bevin Bevin Bev Bev- in whose personal hate Is the best known political fact in London Some of his best friends call him a guttersnipe guttersnipe gut Semite anti as opposed I it is presumed to the more gentlemanly gentlemanly gentlemanly gentle gentle- manly species The confidential Labor party report that i if a general election took place today AttIca Attlee would be returned by a margin of less than 25 seats In the Commons which makes the next election scheduled for 1950 an even money proposition The de facto a appointment of OJ Montgomery as commander in in addition to 10 Britain's army of lb a the French Belgian and Dutch armies No 4 appointment was necessary they Ihy merely acce accept l his military lu leadership as as lh the world automatically accepted diplomatic leadership The Duchess of 0 Kents Kent's private rital crush on Danny Kaye My word ward so Tho The Vatican's Intelligence system system tem which has superseded th the British British Brit Brit- ish as the most effective in Europe No other chancellery knows as much about what's going on inside Rus Rus- sia sin Marshal Titos Tito's sudden generosity generosity gen gen- with visas for American correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents to work out of Belgrade He feels safer with Americas America's free press looking on just on-just just in case case the he Russians start a roughhouse inside the country Lucky Lucianos Luciano's quick and frequent round trips between Rome and Naples apparently on urgent business but business but nobody knows what business and he isn't telling Romes Rome's Excelsior hotel which looks like a branch office of the Fox Century-Fox adr administration tion building except that the Hollywood place hasn't Orson Welles standing out in front like a cigar store Indian Jack Warners Warner's heavy losses in the European casinos during Au August t ninety thousand bux they say one oue night Only the brave chemin de dc fer said R R. 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E Sherwood Or was It Th The Norman Mailer Maller best seller The e Naked and the Dead which has the former war correspondents green with envy The trained seals saw It all aU but left it to a GI to write the masterpiece The literary activity of the American correspondents in Italy everybody is writing a novel since Lionel CBS ex-CBS man in Rome struck Hollywood gold with two books hi ui a a. a arow row The modesty of Homer Bigart who despite the fact that he regularly scoops the pants of off every foreign correspondent Is the most beloved guy in hi the busi bus ness The talented toughness of Wes Ves Gallagher APs AP's Berlin chief who has worn the same scowl practically practically since birth His nickname Laughing Boy Confirmation from high Czech sources now In hi the American zone of the details of Masaryk's death Trapped by Gottwald's gestapo as he lie was about to leave his office for a flight ight to freedom he he shot four tour of the secret cops before backing out of the window The Tha to his death flood of French big business money flowing into treasury because It is now a 10 1 bet that hell he'll be the leader the not Russian premier of France The drunk a colonel at In a party Vienna who mumbled Nobody can afford a war except the Union What have Soviet we got to lose The German ex-German turned to 10 sergeant just re reo re- re Frankfurt from fram three IU as t a II Soviet SOviel years war p prisoner who esl esti mates mate males t that Ihal 1 15 t hs s outfit have per become cent of o the men is in Communists Communist |