Show how america treats axis prisoners of war in concentration camps throughout U S good treatment pays dividends di idenys to captor nations is our treatment of W WHAT prisoners on of f wara at are officers overpaid 7 D do 0 they have to work these and an d in many ny other questions are be beag m g asked as the total of axis prisoners mounts A As a matter 0 of f fact the prisoner problem h has as brice become a r real one since the mass mas surrender of italians in tunisia after sicily capitulated gen eisenhower Elsen hower had on his hands the staggering total of axis prisoners quite a job for any mans army while it is tr true ue that prisoners are enemies of this country and many have been directly responsible for the loss of amer american lives they cannot be treated entirely as enemies but must be treated as soldiers rather than BS as criminals al always w ays with this thought in the it background a ck ground the treatment we accord enemy captives will in some measure at least determine ne the kind of treatment given american american soldiers d ers who have been unfortunate enough to fall into enemy hands there are at least two other reasons for the good treatment of prisoners aside from humanitarian considerations one bas based dupon upon a treaty made at ce geneva re eva on july and the other a purely psychological one namely that war weary and underfed troops may be tempted to lay down their arms to an enemy who feeds them generously and gives them sale safe haven geneva conference at the geneva convention which was a ratified by 37 countries which by the dav did not include either japan or russia certain in to rules on frato treatment and behavior acm were formu under arid th the provisions of the geneva bonfe conference ence soldier prisoners are required to work but officers are not the am amount as time hn a a ans oner must work is leased fiad am it the number of hours put I 1 in by free labor in the da territory it and a one e day st a week is to be it a d daiy of 01 ms rest t food and clothing must be provided by the detaining army 0 occupational classification u is de remained by Is the prisoners physical makeup for instance the prisoner who was formerly former lv engaged as a c clerk I 1 erk or in teacher should not be put at hard labor this provision h however has been largely ignored in axis r countries where many a scholarly soldier grinds out a day that taxes s his strength sorely in every concentration caira many different crafts craft s and trades are plied by the prisoners prisoner but in III no a case do they work on im projects it di connected with the war ef at fort as a precaution against sabo to tage ge payment for labor is at the rate of 80 cents a day for the ordinary baldier Bol 1 dier here in the united states w where here we have a ve some 70 axis prisoners scattered throughout the country U icer in 22 c camps the rate of pay for officers rieux ranges from 20 a month to 40 a month officers officer who he have been assigned no work get paid any anyway ay at t the 1 a regular scale A at t a some of the camps prisoners are kept within by double barbed w wire re enclosures armed guards pace be back ck and forth on outside bode to make sure th that at all 1 I 1 I 1 is well fed army batic rations prisoners in the U S army camps or are led fed the reg regular r or army y field rations in n this respect they fe fare Is much better than general wright and a it his gallant band of do de tend fenders or a who h 0 laid down them their arms on C corregidor orrego d or only after food and war water ap supplies pp li had been cut off the japanese cpr diet d is t consists consist mainly Y of nee a end and there I 1 is r reason to ba believe e that t the he heroes hernes of bataan and ad cor reaid regidor a r au have suffered e r V considerably tad an era bly from I 1 malnutrition since they tell into enemy hands the te japs evide evidently ouri aly japa have nothing muc much hb better etter to offer for even the warriors warrior of guadal goaded canal and ne new w guinea have bee been ince forced d to rely upon rice as their 1 I mainstay kiska and d aatu attu furnished trashed mute evidence of the japs utter dependence pend pen dence c a upon nee men as a fighting figh tinz B staple tap a while win a the japanese government tentatively agreed to 0 certain er i propos s als ala from this country ne with it h ii regard team ard to the treatment of prisoners pris imers their at an N pictured here are some a of I 1 th the 2 lija german prisoners of war who gion breckenridge ky they are to the mess are 6 housed at camp an h hall 11 hamd german at prisoners persons are am closely go guarded it at all times time for unlike like the italians they refuse to play ball and are confidently arrogant most of them are glad to work to relieve the boredom of inactivity has been far from satisfactory loryle A case in point was the shooting of the U S fliers who bombed tokyo with it general doolittle a a squadron which took off from shan gri la aircraft earner carrier hornet and ft ho had the extreme misfortune of rith either horr being shot out of the skies 0 or forced down for other reasons thra these e prisoners it was later announced by t the he japs were shot contrary t to all t the h rules of war as a deterrent it to 0 other cr am american ard riehm fliers who might aneg engage eg in the bombing of japan this violation or of the international rules of war has not however w worked lr k ad and it I 1 japan pan may well trench tremble e ini in its t b cuts boots for the day of rec reckoning konin g which h it is drawing closer with a each id dawn Hun bombing ching perimeters peri meters are drawing closer to the heart ol of the japanese empire day b by y day the bulk of t the h a work done by axis captives in the united states is agricultural this field of course offers the least opportunity for bobbo sabotage when captives engage in this a work they do not in any sense compute compete with native labor but are simply supplementary to it F farmers arinders strange arrange with their county fa farm arm agent for the employment of P anson sum ers era the number is usually small and the prisoners are scattered over w wide d a areas thus removing h IT aiom this practice all 11 element of haza hazard generally speaking axis prisoners with the exception of the jap of who whom we have only a very small number number are a contented lot they have better food clothing and shelter the than they had under the nazi banner in a certain sense they have more liberties and for them the war is over B 21 at U S base so ine 1 eng and tj us new bomber has recently been introduced in europe |