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Show a i j Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear Mr. W.: Billy Rose offered the editors of the Commy Daily Worker a job in his Diamond Horseshoe Horse-shoe revue. Billy considers their flipflops, backflips and somersaults the most comical in the world . . . Tip the newspapers to see the next edition ol The Hour amazing revelations rev-elations on activities of Ukrainians in the U. S. readying sabotage, etc., campaigns. A new Nazi trick because be-cause Germans and Italians are no longer in good standing over here and Ukrainians wouldn't be "suspected." "sus-pected." The German Military Attache in Washington is supposed to have told Washington reporters July 27 is the timetable date for the Nazi war machine ma-chine to take over the Ukraine. Pearson and Allen are furious with ex-Cong. J. J. O'Connor of N.Y. They claim to have a certified copy of a letter from O'Connor (part of the Kansas court record) in which the ex-congressman recently wrote U. S. Judge Richard Hopkins of Kansas. Kan-sas. Alleging that two out of three U. S. appeals court judges in N.Y. were with him in the Congressman Sweeney libel action against the colyumists. Pleading sure victory in N. Y., O'Connor asked Judge Hopkins Hop-kins to postpone any decision in Kansas, but Hopkins promptly dismissed dis-missed all of Sweeney's suits against 10 Kansas newspapers. Hurray for him. On Labor Day, 1939 (after the Commies Com-mies and Nazzies got married) you reported this: Charlie of Place Elegante says vodka (Russian) and Rhine wine (German) is poisonous when mixed! ... In other words we scooped Mr. Hitler by two years. Your Girl Friday. Underground Ticker Tape: The most illustrative underground story circulated in Germany is about the time Goering visited the director direc-tor of an important munitions plant and asked him if there were still any Social Democrats, Catholic Centrists Cen-trists or members of the other outlawed out-lawed parties among his workers . . . "Well," said the director, "about 40 per cent of the workers in my factory are Social Democrats, about 30 per cent Catholic Centrists, and about 30 per cent are still members mem-bers of the other outlawed parties" . . . "Forty per cent, 30 per cent, and 30 per cent?" bellowed Goering. "That makes 100 per cent! Aren't any of your workers Nazis?" . . . "Oh, of course." was the reply, "they are all Nazis!" During the early days of the Nazi occupation of Paris, whenever German Ger-man officers entered a cafe, the French patrons would promptly get up and walk out. This so infuriated the conquerors that they issued an edict forbidding Frenchmen to leave a cafe for at least 15 minutes after the entrance of a German officer . . After that, whenever a German officer entered a cafe, the Frenchmen French-men present would reach into their pockets and pull out small alarm clocks, which they set and placed on the table. At the end of 15 minutes, the alarms would go off all over the place, and the Frenchmen would rush for the doors! In Holland, on Prince Bernhard's birthday, all loyal Dutch citizens wore a white carnation, the prince's favorite flower, as a symbol of defiance de-fiance to the Nazis. Angered by this display of "insolence" on the part of the conquered people, the Nazi3 went around tearing the carnations from the coats of passersby ... A short while later, Dutch sailors made their appearance on the streets and In cafes with carnations prominently displayed on their chests. The Nazis soon desisted from tearing them off . . . The carnations car-nations worn by the sailors contained con-tained ingeniously concealed razor blades. In Holland, one of the big problems prob-lems in the underground warfare against the conquerors is how to find out who can be trusted. One couple solved it in this manner: A few minutes before two o'clock every afternoon, the wife shouted to her husband, who was working in the garden, "Come in, dear. It's almost al-most two o'clock." Two o'clock being be-ing the time for a London news broadcast, their next-door neighbors reported them to the Gestapo . . . The Gestapo didn't arrest the couple, hovever, because they were able to prove that they didn't own a radio . . . But their neighbors had swal-lowed swal-lowed the b.'iit and unmasked themselves them-selves as Nazi stool-pi gvns l.vrr slnee the Nazis cmojiercd "--r:irid. the natives h;ive bfi-n for- n lo I to the iJut' h hroad- cas's noffi Lorio'on. hut Piost of theiri defy the refill-tiori. lit the risk of th' ir li vi . . . Ono'Iluteh woman, wom-an, v.no w;js reeontly c.'iught hst'Ti-io:-; t., r.SSC ,.. Ilntisli Ilroadeasl-l.i Ilroadeasl-l.i ; Ch;urii, was a rr-';t"d. The iti-1 iti-1 i:n... O-.'.-.po u t-.i-il hi-r -xil;iti;i. "' v.-n n' '1 to ,.-;.r If t-I' t-I' r r.pf.ik," -;, h-r r:.lm reply. "Ili'.Vr s iid I, v going to speak from London l.,,r. Sept, nil;, r, and I'm r'i'1 wailing for turn." |