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Show IBP Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Right now the darling of the sloganeers slo-ganeers is: "Will Russia make , separate peace?" . . . Like it or not, Russia has the best record of any of the major nations for keeping Its word and Germany, as everybody every-body knows, an unbroken record for never keeping its pledges . . . One analyst the other morning was chuckling at Goebbcls' funeral speeches at the burial of the RAF victims. He followed the usual line of damning the British and American Ameri-can aviators (for their terror raids) and in the next breath threatening that the Germans would do the same thing, only dirtier, when they got around to it . . . Silly, isn't it? . . . Just the same, even that idiocy idi-ocy has its repeaters over here . . . You hear whispers deploring the ravages of the Allied airmen. It is remarkable that not a peep came out of the same mourners when our side was running second. Some of the Italian soldiers, however, how-ever, know better . . . During the recent Tunisian campaign one of the American boys talked with captured Italian soldier, who once romped with the New York midnight mid-night set . . . 'Well," comforted the Yank, "you're in good hands, oobody'll hurt you." "Thanks very much," was the reply re-ply between giggles, "but don't feel sorry for me. I'm going to America. Ameri-ca. You're going to Italy I" One of the dramatic stories brought back by recently returned war reporters is about the soldiers In a German town executed for distributing dis-tributing pamphlets which read: "We must avenge the needless deaths of the heroes at Stalingrad by assassinating Hitler!" When the Nazi commanding officer offi-cer of the firing squad gave the order or-der to fire he "sympathetically" aid: "Aim at their MEDALS!" At the recent Food Conference, where all the nations made tremendous tremen-dous demands for food the biggest applause greeted China's delegate Liu ... In his speech he astounded everyone by stating: "My country does not want food from the United States. All we ask is the necessary equipment to help us grow it" Jim Farley was asked to unravel the numerous rumors that (1) He would run with Bricker (2) With Dewey (3) With Willkie (4) With Hull and (5) With MacArthur . . . "Is there anything to any of that?" we asked. "He's stuck with me," said Mrs. Farley, "and that's enough!" That story about the sailor who recently got up In the House Gallery Gal-lery ... He was fed up with all the oratorical bigotry during the poll-tax poll-tax debate . . . And he interrupted by shouting: "Mr. Speaker, I would like to know why a man must pay tribute for the right to vote when he can fight without doing it?" . . . Guards seized him. A psychiatrist looked him up and down . . . And then he was released ... To which Newsweek delightfully observed: "The sailor paid the inevitable consequence con-sequence of asking a sensible question ques-tion of Congress and had his head examined!" Fuller's Thesaurus of Anecdote Includes the one about Will Rogers spurning an invite to dinner by saying: say-ing: "I've already et" "You should say," said the friend, "have eaten." "Well." drawled Rogers, "I know lot of fellers who say 'have eaten' who ain't et!" . . . So that future historians won't be misled, what Rogers was criticized for was saying say-ing "ain't" and his answer was: "I notice a lotta fellers who ain't savin ain't, ain't eatin'l" The Mario Lanterns: The last chore Leslie Howard performed, before be-fore dying in a plane crash, was to star In a picture honoring the man who gave the RAF the Spitfire fight? er. "Spitfire" is the film's name, tory never much on bang-bang, but with a heart as big as the house, and some Incidents throwing more light on the Nazi plot against world peace. David Niven and Rosamond John provide the chief support ... "Aerial Gunner" tells, with exciting kodakery, how the flier up In the air gets a bead on a Jap, even though (hooting is too good for him. Chester Morris, Lita Ward and Richard Rich-ard Arlen are the players, but th military maneuvers are the meal and potatoes . . . Hemingway's picture. pic-ture. "For Whom the Bell Tolls." runs three hours and cost three mil lion or a million per hour. Terhapa the propagandists ovet there are better than any of ouri . . . On of our stunts was having Allied filers drop goodies, such ai chocolate bars, over Italian towns . . . The wrappers on them contained con-tained propaganda telling the Italians Ital-ians that the chocolate was one oi the good things they could bav plenty of if they came over to out id . . . The trick was working splendidly unUl the fast-thinkers lr the Italian propaganda bureau frightened the people out of picking them up |