Show N Private Papers Paper OJ Of a Cub Reporter Drew Middleton of AP Wm H. H Stoneman J John hn MacVane Chas Collingwood and some other Amer- Amer American American ican reporters and commentators rate medals for their reporting of the political in North M- M Africa rica despite the heavy army and State Department pressure to stop them The Th political censorship was lifted early in January but since then pressure has been applied to b get the boys to layoff lay off the explosive situation created by our policy What is not widely known Is that Columbia Broadcast Broadcast- Broadcasting ing was pressured to shut up Col- Col Collingwood Collingwood lingwood and that Harry Butcher an fixer ex-fixer cx fixer for Columbia Broadcast Broadcast- Broadcasting ing now a commander and naval aide to Eisenhower was the Ment Returning war reporters tell of the melodrama on a ship which brought back prisoners of war The Geneva convention it appears ruled that officers of war prisoners would handle the discipline of their own men On this ship some of the prisoners included a few of Ger- Ger Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's many's former social democrats Now that they were prisoners the war was over for them them-so they re- re reused reused used to salute their Nazi superiors superiors' The infuriated officers sought satisfaction from the Americans in charge We uWe demand one of them stormed some pistols and permission to have these men shot The request of course was ig- ig nored The correspondents tell us they are amazed about the rumors over here regarding the W in Al- Al Algiers Algiers giers allegedly being a headache to Eisenhower We didn't see an anything hing t to indicate nd cate that said the arrived with Captain Marquis were all lodged in a convent in El El-Biar a suburb of where Algiers they kept very chaste hours You probably recall the booklet handed our men in North Africa about Arabian customs which warned them of the urgent importance importance tance of respecting mosques cus- cus customs customs toms women etc Arabian dig dig- dignitaries dignitaries say the effect has been very good General decided to resist when he learned of the American landings in the early hours of November 8 He planned to move his headquarters to which is inland and there await German help which had been promised He was not pro pro- simply Nazi an opportunist He thought we weren't there in suf- suf sufficient sufficient force He asked the Sul- Sul Sultan Sultan tan to move with him from Rabat Rabat- and from declare a holy war on the invaders Despite the legend of General influence over the Sultan His Majesty re- re refused refused fused to move or declare a holy war That was Sunday afternoon That evening about six the Sultan was handed a copy of the booklet the h army got wit with the up t help of u ut and some of his experts who were over there ahead of time This booklet the Sultan learned was found on the body of an American soldier killed in the landing at Port Lyautey in the attack on the Kasbah there which was repulsed by native troops The booklet was blood blood- bloodstained bloodstained stained The man who brought it to the Sultan was an Arab dig dig- dignitary dignitary favorable to the Allied cause He translated the passages about respect for Arab customs Arab women etc The Sultan not an emotional individual wept and said I knew that the Amer- Amer Americans Americans were good people I am glad I did what I did Notes oj o f an Innocent nt Bystander The Wireless Elmer Davis won won- wonders wonders ders why Franco waited until his Axis chums were on the losing end before he got sorry about the inhumane in- in inhumane humane aspect of bombings Murder of British Sunday school tots and teachers by the hasn't been officially wept over in Madrid either Vim Y H. H Castle once of the State Dept spouted trust Rus sia talk but Johannes Steel remind remind- reminded ed all that Castles Castle's last boner was saying that Japan was to be trusted He said that on the morn of Dec 7 1941 which you'd think would cure him of prophecy forever Ed Herlihy on NBC for Horn and liar liar- Hardart dart sat a year old on his knee before the mike you asked Ed like to go on the Chil- Chil Childrens Children's Childrens Children's drens dren's Hour to which the child heard from Coast to Coast replied No I wanna go to the bathroom Insiders tell you not to bet against Gen Patton distinguishing himself sooner than you think The General received too much of a buildup in Tunisia and then there was no reason to the attack en- en enemy enemy emy h having ving fled L Lifes Life's es e's ger Eliot Elisofon Is home minus 30 pounds of weight and aU all his equipment Lost everything getting j out of a burning plane just In time Eisenhower they say tom t om- om to Washington about the abundance of newspaper men and radio correspondents in N. N Africa I |