Show 11 V A reading heading the papers out loud this Is not the first time that thai american battle flags flag have been carried e to the mediterranean they were there over a century ago foi the same purpose the extermination of pirates at that time we fought for the freedom of the seas now we fight for the freedom ol of america it if jou you said that a little while ago you were called a warmonger an interventionist or a but no oni one today doubts that america is safer because men from montana and georgia vermont and nevada are thi throwing owing pi rates out of tunis and algeria athis is more than a lesson I 1 in n geography it Is a milestone la in national responsibility rome and berlin now know that tripoli and libya are our next military objectives but their chiel chief worry is that world freedom is our oui war aim they know that while one concentration camp exists while one nazi propaganda cell functions and while one squad of axis troops resists our arms will remain in the held field america has ha s liberated libe north africa because a free f ee america can only exist in a free world the full strength ol oi america will continue to march because the road to berlin Is the only way back to maln main st tiie the whispering ring that went an on against the british Is ia now being directed against the french maybe its wrong to keep darlan on the job but gen eisenhower Elsen hower got that tar far by ignoring the clamor clique so why should he listen to them now you can got a rap against giraud too it you turn your ear in a certain direction I 1 De has an enemy section over here and so have most of the french military leaders our forces ore are dealing with its the same old line you heard against churchill wavell ritchie nit chic etc hear it again if wo we happen to line up with the arabs or the hottentots Hotten tots because its easier to say something than to know something nobody has lined up more eagerly for or the war causes than tho the hollywood w 0 od workers they have contributed contribute tri buted d their time and their talents to amusing the service men and building up bond sales the spirit out there Is right I 1 too then they tip lip over the works by making a flicker that gives people the idea that ua its still 1028 1928 in california the latest to get the hammers is once upon a 9 honeymoon several of the N X Y reviewers were shocked that a picture could take ruined warsaw as the setting for a piece of low comedy this is the third flicker that has earned rebukes for the movie makers they will soon have to start reading tho the new york reviews with smoked glasses 4 they re too blinding for the naked eye theres no group as superstitious as 03 show people they fear more jinxes jinkes than a voodoo tribe one of their pet superstitions is that their colleagues always die in threes its just happened again with may robson edna mae oliver passing away earlier in the year a hollywood trio died within a short time of each other john barrymore and two producers J walter ruben and bernie hyman brooks atkinson gave a tender column to george M cohan best of all was his discussion of over there which was the theme song of the lost last war mr atkinson tells you why although over there has the strangest and most unlikely tune said mr A it Is ono one of the songs almost any american can sing shig on the spur of the moment it is a perfect expression of a popular emotion k what more could yon yoa ask of a war wansong song so fat far there have been good ditties for the service branche sAir corps marines etc but nothing for fo r the civilians to get hot about mr cohan knew how to stir up people file he might have shun spun digit b ut another over there for that reason and too many others he died too soon two lasses were over their dal wishing the war would end and things get back to normal normal when the stock market fell on its kisser wad bankrupted everybody chos anybody when Bundis ts strutted in madison square garden and challenged the law to make something of it when people lived in tar pa per shacks and peddled apples on the corner when the dust storms shooed akles all over the nation things I 1 never knew til ti Z now that you applaud at the end of the star spangled banner it would be just as correct to applaud a ministers administers prayer that when your doctor writes on the prescription Gossy plum purl factum dont get panicky it only means absorbent cotton that miles standish was one of the few warriors correctly christened miles in means sol foht rand it |