| Show HOR 1 1 WEA ON Washington D. D C. C OCCUPATION OF REICH The war department isn't advertising advertising advertising adver adver- the details but it has completed comI com com- completed plans for the occupation of Germany by American forces I The Allies have agreed the occupation occupation occupation pation should be shared in roughly I equal numbers by U. U S. S British and andI I Soviet forces This will permit the I I return to the U. U S. S A. A of a maximum maximum maximum maxi- maxi mum number of units will also free i thousands of trained men if necessary I j sary for polishing off the war against Japan 1 r The chief problem involved is getting getting get- get getting ting enough transports to rush the themen themen themen men home plus sorting out those entitled enI entitled en en- I titled to go home first The latter latterI I t will vill be decided by the army's point demobilization system and millions millions millions mil- mil lions of forms for computing each t tI j GIs GI's service are being printed and andI I shipped overseas In 1918 American soldiers in I France deliriously overjoyed at vicI victory vic vic- vic vic- I tory almost threw away their weapons weapons I ons went wild for weeks and months Officers equally happy I suspended regulations and permitted permit permit- I ted their men to overrun the big cities of France having a gay time I After this armistice things will be different The whole plan has been beene I charted to the last detail Discipline II will be maintained but the war department demobilization plan calls for the elimination of all har rassing details not essential to the health and welfare of the troops GI Tours of Europe Most of the troops will be excused from fromn drill will be given ample opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- to see Europe while awaiting transports for home Men who desire it will be taken on tours of Df the continent under army aus aus- A Guided Tours of Europe program program program pro pro- gram is being worked out as a re- re Suit of the experience after the last war of American doughboys who returned home having seen only the battle fronts plus the gay side of I Paris This time officials are to let the boys learn something something some some- thing more of the people and places they have been fighting for Some GIs will be given an opportunity opportunity opportunity to go to school in Europe attend universities such as the Sor- Sor I I bonne Oxford and Cambridge The army will also organize classes for forthe forthe forthe the younger GIs who want to pick pickup up their studies during the brief period period period pe pe- after the armistice before they return home The war department recognizes it will be no easy job lob to get the army home all at once However both have emphasized the need for speeding speeding speed speed- I ing discharges and with no submarine subI submarine sub sub- marine warfare to cope with and no I necessity for sailing in slow convoys officials are confident that all except the army of occupation in Germany will be back within a few months Note Note Greatest Greatest complaint against the army point system is that it itI I makes no allowance for men over 85 65 who apparently have to sweat it out until the end of the Japanese war unless the war department makes new allowances for them ti INSIDE GERMANY Allied leaders after surveying effects effects ef ef- of intelligence work inside the Reich are now finally convinced there is no chance of an honest anti- anti Hitler revolt by th the German people I What's more efforts to spawn a pro-Allied pro underground in Germany have met with failure I Principal reason is that the Gestapo Gestapo tapo controls everything including including including ing the army hierarchy The communist communist communist com com- underground has been completely completely completely com com- liquidated also all aU remnants of the socialist and social democrat ic parties I The only real hope Allied military leaders have is that the 11 million I slave laborers brought to Germany by Hitler from Poland Russia France Belgium Holland HoIland and Norway Norway Norway Nor Nor- way will conduct an increasing campaign of sabotage perhaps giving giving ing heart to large groups of Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans to join them A A. year ago Hitler and his henchmen kicked these slave laborers around at will fed them poorly worked them brutally under a whip lash Of late this pressure has been eased In some instances Nazis have reportedly re re- given special treatment to their captives on the chance that they themselves will not be too badly punished by the Allies Allies Al Al- lies when German falls It is now even possible for a few of these captives to escape from Germany for a price in foreign money money money-as as petty Nazi police try to accumulate enough foreign currency to live safely during g th the e Allied occupation I I CAPITAL CHAFF Q L I. Whenever Sen Bennett Clark of Missouri soon to be an ex meets Mrs A. A Mitchell Mitchel Palmer he says III I I should hate you but I cant can't He refers to the fact the V that at at Baltimore Democratic convention convention conven conven- tion of 1912 A. A Mitchell Palm Palmer received a telegram from Woodrow Wilson then governor of New Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- JerI I sey releasing his delegates to Be Bennetts Ben Ben- nett's father Speaker Champ Clark But u Palmer a f refused fused to show one the telegram a and d in the end any Wilson not Clark was nominated |
