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Show Washington, D. C. TJ. S. FOREIGN LEGION Most people don't realize it, but there are many enemy aliens who are officers in the U. S. army. In fact the army, true to the American tradition of the melting pot, is made up of American citizens of almost every national and racial background, back-ground, including 2,720 German aliens, ali-ens, not to mention 2,700 Germans who are naturalized citizens. The Italian total is 2,472 aliens and 3,781 naturalized. In addition, there are 644 Japanese in the army, plus 3,000 Japanese-Americans, formerly of the Hawaiian national guard, most of whom are assigned to the 100th battalion at Fort McCoy, Wis. The army goes on the assumption that any man who wants to fight can be a good soldier. Of course, the "enemy aliens" are checked and double-checked before they are admitted ad-mitted for enlistment. The men who pass these tests are found to be even more zealous for the defeat of the dictators than the average American. Ameri-can. Latin-American Battalions. To make the melting pot more complex, the army has a Filipino infantry battalion, and is forming a battalion for Norwegians in the 'U. S. and Norwegian-Americans. Instruction In-struction and conversation in this unit will be in the Norwegian language. lan-guage. Equally eager to fight are thousands thou-sands of Latin-Americans, especially especial-ly from the nearer countries, such as Cuba and Mexico. The office of the U. S. military attache in Havana is flooded with applications from young Cubans who want to wear the uniform of Uncle Sam. Most of them would renounce Cuban citizenship if necessary. But what they do not realize is that if they come to the United States, they are likely to be swept into the U. S. army, whether they like it or not. Within five days after entering this country, aliens must register for the draft, and they had better leave the country pronto if they don't want to be inducted. Not yet arranged, but highly desirable, de-sirable, is a Latin-American battalion. bat-talion. There are now ten Latin-American Latin-American countries which have declared de-clared war on the Axis, and thousands thou-sands of their young men want to follow up that declaration with something more than police duty at home. BACK-BREAKERS An American diplomat returning from Italy tells this revealing story about the true sentiments of the Italian people. In his office at the U. S. embassy in Rome he found a clerk, an Italian girl, crying. When he inquired what was wrong, she replied: "Oh, I'm ashamed to be an Italian. You remember re-member what boasting the Fascists did about the Greek campaign? They said: 'We will break their kidneys.' kid-neys.' But everybody knows who really beat the Greeks; it was not our army; it was the Germans. But now have you seen the poster on the streets this morning?" And the girl broke into tears again. The diplomat looked outside at the poster, which that day was appearing appear-ing all over Italy. It showed a Greek soldier lying on his face, with a steel bar across his back. On top of the bar was the Fascist in-signe, in-signe, and on the side, the swastika. The caption read: "We said we would break their kidneys. Mussolini Musso-lini is always right." Note: All reports from Italy tell of a growing disgust with the Mussolini Mus-solini government, and a growing hatred of the Germans. But the people are too cowed to revolt. NO-CHAUFFEUR ARNOLD TrustbustingThurman Arnold hails from the small town of Laramie, Wyo., and he doesn't see any reason rea-son why he should hire a chauffeur to drive his car. So he drives it himself. One evening, after he and Mrs. Arnold had been dinner guests of Mrs. Evalyn (Hope Diamond) McLean, they were going out the front door, when the doorman said, in his most elegant manner, "Shall I call your car, Mr. Arnold?" With a dour expression on his face, Arnold said, "You can call it, but I don't think it will come." CAPITAL CHAFF C The Thurman Arnolds are mourning mourn-ing over the fact that Angelica has eaten Henry Wallace's corn. When the vice president heard about it, he having given the Arnolds a present of Iowa hybrid corn, he remarked: "I hope the corn did Angelica some good." Angelica is the Thurman Arnolds' cow. C Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Senator Sena-tor "No-X-Card" Pepper of Florida, walks to social engagements or takes the street car. C There may be a gasoline shortage, short-age, but you would never know it at Washington's Congressional Country club. On a recent Sunday there were so many golfers that caddies had to double up and carry two or three bags each ... On the same Sunday, motorists so jammed the highways between Washington and Eastern Shore beaches that cars were lined up for three hours waiting wait-ing for the Chesapeake ferry. |