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| Story of Udet

. BERLIN, July 16.~The world-famous filer, Erpst : | Udet, wasn't killed while trying out a new model of | the luftwaffe in 1941, as official reports stated then. H

e -committed suicide because he foresaw his own § doom and the defeat of the luftwaffe, this corre-

unimpeachable source, . Udet had won world tame during the last world war as a member of the feared Richthofen fly- | ing §juadron and afterwards when

| officers first | Mindoro island § recent Borneo

mbers sprayed fhe toured the world as a stunt . D. T. shortly y flier, easily quiglassing all rivals. vas begun. | Udet had never been a Nazi and lions of flies BB was even known for his sharply bodies of Jap ironical criticism of Hitler before

ted by spraye 1933.

wi % . That 1s why everybody was | Emst Udet ggtonished when he entered the | perty ond became leading man in the luftwaffe. Ever | since his sudden death, rumors have indicated that i] he didn’t die as officially stated. This correspondent i | declared in 1042 that his death was caused either by . suicide or assassination, on ow I have talked to the woman who loved Udet . and who was his mistress during the last years of i his life, She has furnished what I consider ample | proof of his suicide. This is her story.

. Nazis Falsified Figures | UDET NEVER entered the party, but late in 1933 | he was informed by Goering, his former comrade in | the Richthofen squadron, that he “had been weli comed into the party.” Since he didn’t wish to flee t from Germany, he couldn't refuse the job in the Luftwaffe. Soon he was top production man, as chief | of the so-called C department. Udet found out that all production figures were | ghamelessly falsified. Not even Goering was given i | correct figures, and then Goering changed them again

i to please Hitler more. The idea was to heighten . German and lower allied production figures. GR APHER i Hitler, who constantly dreamed of destroying the

VERSEAS Hicks, 355 8. ite overseas L0 grapher in the vision of the and Rehabilie in Germany. U.N. R.R. A, ant supervisor on in Indiane ly completed rsity of Marye

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PUBLICATION of Count Ciano’s diary has created | a furor in Italy and at the same time has torn the veil | fro many ugly political sores in Europe. One spot " of bad infection is in Spain. There, continuing his one-man governinent. is Gen. Francisco Franco, whom Ciano has described in his diary as a tool of both Mussolini and Hitler. According to Ciano, Franco was afireswith the idea of declaring war on the United States and Great Britain. Hitler refused his permission for Spain to join the conflict. Surrounding Franco in high places are men who derided the

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evil ways of nazism arsl fascism and who continue to fallow the totalitarian road. Spain's help in | supplies and armed forces flowed freely to the axis | powers throughout the war. And when Mussolini stabbed France in the back, Spain added another thrust, a minor one, but almost as dangerous to the allied cause. Franco seized.the city of Tangier, across the straits from the Rock of : Gibraltar and commanding the entrance to the Medi- | terranean,

t F'ranco Still Holds Tangier s HITLER ORDERED this move and fylly intended | to exploit it by placing a large number of German | divisions: in Tangier. After moving an army to the Spanish. frontier ready to Bo. into Tangier, . he canceled the orders. This was not due to any unwillingness on | Franco's part but to the need -for more strength | against Great Britain. To this day, Franco’s forces remain in command | of Tangier, hiding the Nazi agents who have lived ere comfortably since 1940. His only proposal to the allies has been that the Spanish forces be removed and the control of Tangier given to the sultan of Morocco. That would be a sop to France because | the sultan of Morocco is a French puppet. * Tangier is of vital interest to the U. 8, and to Qreat Britain. The sacrifices of the North African a : campaign have placed Amerifan claims to representa~

Science

“SCIENTIFIC SUICIDE” is a phrase that leading medical men, scientists, chemists, engineers and industrialists are applying to the policies of the selective service administration.

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“is following the .eourse of scientific suicide” by drafting scientists and cutting off the supply of scientific students, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas, vice president of Mon- _ santo Chemical co., says. Numerous scientific journals, including Chemical and Engineering News, official publication of the American Chemical society, are up in arms over the selective service policy. Among the educational bodies which view the present situation with alarm is the American Council on Education. The colleges and universities of the nation were, of course, hit hard by the war but a certain number of advanced students in technical and medical subJects were deferred upon the grounds that they ‘would eventually be of more value in the war as engineers or medical men.

Training Curtailed THIS DEFERMENT of students in scientific fields | was pretty much ended in the spring of 1945 on the basis that an all-out effort to win the war against Germany was more important, The situation remains 5 the same today. - v The feeling of the American Council on Education is that the number of students that would have to be deferred to keep the technical and medical edu-~

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—I give you today a letter written from Great Britain on V-E day, which seems to me significant. “Out across the land from where I type, where, in Years gone by, the ships of death approached our countryside, between the hedges and under the shadow of the 600-year-old church tower, there is history in the making—locally “ ‘and nationally, too, as this great date is being inscribed on future records, “Here In the fields of England’s green and pleasant land, children are playing, shouts and hoots of delight fill the peace of this very old village. I see 15 children at least, dressed in that oddment of

; apparel which clothing ration only py” . makes permissible JWhping, Hu Fnniog,. tiring themoar re a

“Why? Tu is because peace

Is coming anf there is a bonfire tbo 1, you wil be

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democracies, who-believed--in-the-

Only the United States among the major powers.

ee By Curt Riess

British Isles, demanded more Bombers: Udet,” in spite of falsified production figures, knew German

capacity and knew also that Germany couldn't pro-|

duce enough bombers to defeat England, Also, knowing allied production potentialities, he was cer~ tain that American and English bombers would

seventually devastate Germany. Therefore he de-

clared: “Let's stop producing bombers, We need fighters. Twenty thousand fighters by the end of 1043, or Germany is lost.” Goering told him that Hitler. wouldn't listen .to such talk and insisted on bombers. When Udet made a second attempt to persuade Goering, the reichmarsha] said: “If you remain stubborn, I can’t protect you any longer.” :

Confirmed by Neighbors UDET, during that night with his mistress in an elegant restaurant in the west end of Berlin told her, “That means the concentration camp. I don’t want to end there. I will kill myself.” During the next two days the lady in question never left Udet, who all that time was more or less

drunk. Then she left him to go home to have a night's sleep. As soon as she entered her apartment the telephone rang. Udet's voice came over the wire: “You leave me alone in the darkest moment of my life. Goodby.” She raced back to Udet, but found him dead. He had shot himself. Half an hour later officials of the luftwaffe removed Udet’s body. It was taken to a nearby airport and neatly arranged under a wrecked plane. Then the story of the accident was released. I talked to inhabitants of the apartment building where Udet lived at. No. 4 Poinmerschestrasse. They confirmed the story and told me that the gestapo had threatened death to any who would reveal the unofficial version. Subsequent developments proved that Udet was a good judge of what the luftwaffe couldn't accomplish, and of what the allied air forces were capable of doing to Germany.

| (Inside Indianapolis will appear in this space tomorrow.)

| Ciano Diary Furor By Hal O'Flaherty

tion at Tangier above those of Spain and France. It was British and American lives that freed the longdisputed territory. Furthermore, with a line of leased air bases running across North Africa, the U. S. cannot afford to have eternal strife centering in Morocco. Nor can Britain afford to have an unfriendly control of the Straits of Gibraltar, Obviously, Tangier is spot for international control with the two most interested powers in a dominant position.

Britain Needs Our Help IF, HOWEVER, the United States withdraws 97 per cent of its armed strength from the Mediterranean, as recently suggested from Washington, our own interests cannot be protected and the position of Britain will be weakened. France and Spain will

begin. all-over the same old battle for power. On the other hand, if a strong American force remains out there, that slice of the world can be given a new and a better deal. The same argument applies to the eastern end of the Mediterranean where Italy holds a mandate from the old League of Nations over the Dodecanese islands. That shred of Mussolini's evil planning should be liquidated. The Dodecanese ‘islands offer sites for an American air and naval base which could be established without affecting large populations. © And Britain needs our help in keeping the disputes over the Bosporus and the Balkans from becoming acute. Not only Tangier but all of the Mediterranean problems will’ come before the conference to be held Bis week-in Potsdany by he Big Threw. While the meeting is to deal primarily with the- major enemy country, Germany, and-is not a real peace conference, these other acute situations must be removed from the field of controversy between the victors and the so-called neutral states such as Spain. It will be a major catastrophe for the new United Nations if the United States fails to. follow up its military action in the Mediterranean with an abiding political interest. That can be done only by maintaining an impressive armed force on its own bases and under its own flag.

By David Dietz

cation programs going is not enough to interfere with immediate conduct of the war and that the nation will later pay a high price for the failure to have done this. “Technical skills and specialized knowledge require years of training,” the council states. “The leaders of five and 10 years from now should be in training at present. “Instead we have all but ceased our training in all the fields upon which our technological civilization most directly depends. The stoppage of the flow of young men into scientific and technical fields is a serious threat to the health, safety and welfare of the nation for the next two decades. None of our allies has made this mistake.”

Others Defy Scientists DR. THOMAS points out that both Great Britain and Russia have been deferring scientists and carefully encouraging the training of new scientists to assure postwar technological progress. American science was mobilized for world war II as never before, Under the direction of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the National Research Council, miracles were performed in the scientific field. Yet, during the last two years I have constantly heard complaints that scientists doing important-work for these agencies were in constant battle with draft boards to hang on to their young assistants without whom the researches could not have been kept going. This has been difficult to understand because the basic idea of selective service was not only to raise an army but to put every man of draft age at the post where he would make the maximum contribution to the winning of the war.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

lighted kids between the ages of 7 and 16—not all boys, a preponderance of Sis-opl, Wilsie is teaching the ‘best game ever,’ “With two articles Herestary for the craft given to my boys as a parting gift, could you guess what the noise is all about? For the first time in the history of a village which housed a DePercy—the first baron to sign the Magna charta as a witness-—this grand American lad from Michigan is teaching British children the rudiments of baseball, “I am wondering if this may not be one of the ways in which we can heal the sickness of the world when peace comes, After a comradeship of war, 2an there be & greater and further-reaching comradeship of victory? Surely if In the green flelds which saw the passage bf the Romans, the invading Scots, the battling hordes of Oliver Cromwell, one American corporal is controlling the- hands and hearts of 15 noisy children and in so doing is teaching them to flay & gaine, 1: Wig very ov: Sure seems Ww me

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CopXiiont, ie BY en a countries, including right of translation. Feb. 9-March 16, 1942 JAPANESE successes in the first months after Pearl

Harbor so alarmed the Ger-

‘mans that they sounded out

the Italians’ on the possibilities of a separate peace between the axis and the Western allies as a prelude to a global clash between the white and yellow races, aecording to the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Fascist Italy’s foreign

minister. Ironically, the German peace proposals were wrecked on the unbending malice of Mussolini whose attitude more and more favored the Japanese as he found the Germans fearful. The Japs informed the axis they would march on India, then canceled their decision because of the growing allied power in Australia. The Germans were planning an attack on the Turks (which never materialized) as the only way to obtain the oil of the Middle East. Ciano wrote: ” s » n FEB, 9 — “Attolico (ambassador to the Vatican) died suddenly . . Bottal (minister of national education) wanted .to succeed him at the Holy See. Il Duce was against it. He said: ‘I refuse to believe that at 46 Bottai would want to end his life as an altar boy.” (Ciano later was made ambassador to the Vatican at 39.) Feb. 10—“I have received El Galilani, prime minister of Irak, who started the anti-British revolt, and now circulates between Rome and Berlin to lay the foundation for the future Arab nations. . . . Bismarck (Nazi minister) has let it be known

{that Germany is preparing to at«

tack Turkey, an unavoidable action to reach the oil wells.” 2 ". s FEB. 12—“I handed to Mackensen (Nazi ambassador) the text of a telegram from the American military attache in Moscow, directed to Washington. It is a complaint about the lack of delivery of arms promised by the United States. It says that if the U. 8. S. R. is not given aid immediately, it will have to consider capitulation.” Feb. 13—“To send two divisions to Russia in March we must ask the Germans for anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft Dafteries and autamobiles?” 5 n LJ Feb. 16—“The fall of Singapore has been a great blow to the British. ‘I should like to know,” Mussolini said today, ‘what effect the surrender of four British officers, with the white flag unfurled, has had on those whimsical Orientals. If it had been us, no one would

it’. » » » s FEB. 18—"The Japanese victories are shattering British resistance hour by hour and may perhaps bring about a more rapid and successful conclusion than we have been able to foresee. The AngloSaxon situation never has appeared so desperate.” :

have attached any importance to].

PEACE TALKS IN 1942 (No. 24 of Count Ciano's Diary)

Jap Successes...

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Turkish infantrymen . . . They waited for the German attack,

which never materialized.

Feb. 20-—“Alfieri (ambassador to Berlin) sends a strange’ telegram, according to which Ribbentrop fore= | casts that Great Britain will ask | for an armistice with the idea of| saving what still exists. “Can it be that the Germans! actually are beginning to realize the! fearful tragedy this war represents

_| for the white race?

“Mussolini showed concern this! morning about coal and steel. We! lack these things and the Germans carry out their commitments only partially. ‘Among the cemeteries,’

says Mussolini, ‘I will build a most |

important one, promises’.”

to. bury German

2 2 2

FEB. 22—“From Prague our coun- |,

sel general reports that the deputy Reich-protector (Heydrich, for: whose assassination the village of Lidice was destroyed) is treating our nationals at least as badly as the Czechs, if not worse. “I gfiowed the report to-Mussolint; who is indignant. ‘And the Germans should protest about the Japanese! I much vrefer the yellow people to the Germans, even if the Japanese come as far as the Persian gulf.’ SHE “The coal situation is bad. . . By April we shall have used all the

supplies available for the railroads.”

” 2 = FEB. 23 —“Il1 Duce is worried about the rumors of his statements on ecclesiastical questions and has asked me to have Guariglia (ambassador to the Vatican) deny them. “I accompany Clodius (Nazi eco-, nomic negotiator) to Palazzo Venea: ER meated to explain, the nondelivery of coal (to Italy). The winter was -exceptionally severe. There was a shortage of laborers and a. lack of railroad transportation. The Russian front alone absorbed 5000 more lccometives than had been planned.” (For purposes of comparison there are about 43,000 locomotives in the United States.) ” " ” FEB. 24—'"Mussolini expounds one of his new theories. Wars are necessdry to evaluate the true internal composition of a people, because in war the classes are revealed, the heroes, the profiteers, the lazy, I objected that war in any case is a selection in reverse, because the best die. “Bismarck (Nazi minister) talked in a very pessimistic tone. In Ger-

many all are convinced that another | winter of war would be unbearable. {But no one dares tell Hitler. They lought to find some way of coming to an understanding with the Anglo- | Saxons, particularly since the Nip- | ponese advance is a disaster for the white race. “The Germans can,do nothing in this direction. They are hated too {much, are ‘black sheep.’ The Italians should take the role of world peacemakers!”

» » ” FEB. 25—“There are signs of intolerance between the Germans and {the Japanese. The latter have been surprised and offended at some proposals made by Von Ribbentrop. . Mussolini, who is pro-Japanese | because he is anti-German, expresses his satisfaction. ‘The Japanese are not a people toward whom the Germans can exercise the luxury of hauling the emperor out

to tell him that things have already {been decided.” ” » » MARCH 2—“Jacomini (military commander) reports on the situation in Albania, . . . We have scarcely four divisions, each composed of two regiments and the regiments composed of two battalions. Not even a tank. . , . It is plain that before sending new forces to Russia we must secure the possessions we have.” » » » MARCH 3—“The Duke of Aosta is dead (second cousin of King Victor and viceroyfof Ethiopia, who surrendered to the British in 1941. He the of ‘tiberculosis in Nairobi, Kenya colony), . “In the afternoon Bismarck telephoned to say the Germans were preparing to launch a campaign, accusing the British secret service of his murder. He added that he personally thought it, was in ‘bad taste. He’s right. There is nothing to confirm this thesis. Mussolini is more and more proJapanese. He would like to write an article praising the Jap people who, after centuries of misery, have reversed their situation in a few months.” 2 =n = : MARCH. 6—“Margherita Campello, a friend of one of Gambara’s (Italian commander in Spain

ca red Nazis

"head an Italian army marching on

of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning],

that his officers in Rome were arrested and his quarters searched by the carabinieri. . . . It appears that at an officers’ mess in Libya he said: ‘I hope to live long enough to

Berlin.’ “A heavy British bombardment of industria’ Paris. The Germans are trying to arouse the French. But Buti (Italian ambassador in Paris) informs us the French are not aroused.” : (Editor's note: R. A. F. bombers heavily raided three aircraft and motor works in Paris industria: suburbs during the night of March 3-4. Marshal Petain inVichy declared a day of national mourning. The Nazi radio in Paris reported 1500 dead. » - » MARCH 7-"“The Japanese admirals inform us. they intend to proceed toward India. The axis is supposed to move toward them. in the Persian Gulf.” March 10—"Prince Urak from Von Ribbentrop’s bureau has come to Rome to see d’Ajeta (Ciano’s personal secretary, now in Lisbon). He speaks strangely about Japan, in an ambiguous and bittersweet tone. It is well for the Japanese to win because they are our allies, but after all they belong to the yellow race and their victories are gained at the expense of the whites. . . . D'Ajeta has the impression that Urak was sounding out our feelings on a separate peace between the axis and Great Britain.” » # » MARCH 11-“I1 Duce reacted sharply against Urak’s proposals. He affirmed his extreme pro-Japanese attitude. ‘After all, what importance will the enrichment of the Japanese have at the cost of the European standard of living? Such concerns betray the residue of Marxism in the German soul.’ “This morning, at the Sudario church, there was a ceremony for the Duke of Aosta. Only the members of the royal court were invited. . . The family was seated in a pew hidden from view. The ceremony| had begun when the door opened and an old woman in mourning entered humbly. She was Donna Rachele (Mussolini's wife). She took the first seat she could find, and wept through the whole ceremony. At the close, she called for her automobile, but it wasn’t there. I offered her mine, but she refused. She came on foot, and she left on foot. “I told II Duce, who was much surprised. ‘This is the first time such a thing has happened,’ he said. But the old woman weeping in the church was not the wife of a great leader, but the mother of a lieutenant ¥illed af 20 (Bruno Mussolind, who died in an airplane crash).” ” EJ » MARCH 15—“In a conference with Indelli (ambassa to Tokyo) the Japanese have outlined their plans. No attack on India. It would disperse their forces in a vast and unknown field. No attack on Russia. An extension of the fighting toward Australia, where tt appears the Americans and British are preparing a counter-attack.” March 16—“The recent 25 per cent cut in the bread ration has been received with despair, although there have been few signs of protest.”

(Tomorrow: II Duce’s mistress

and North Africa) secretaries, says

a national scandal.)

—Service authorities and the country’s leading educators have worked out a system for granting school credits for education and training elved during military service ich they are confident will prove far more satisfactory than methods employed after the first world war. The system is based on the principle that reliable records of study and training performed, or demonstrated educational competence of individuals of the armed forces, form the only sound basis for fair accreditation. Educators recall that after the last war, educational institutions undertook to grant “blanket credit” for time spent in the service, even com-

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P).|peting in the generosity of credits

granted, which lowered educational standards.

Handbook Prepared

With past experiences in mind the American Council on Education convened a special committee in the spring of 1942 to study the problem. The council spoke for colleges and universities, and enlisted the interest of the National Association of Secondary School ‘Principals. The program which ha# been worked out involves three practical aids for the schools to employ in giving service men credits. One is a handbook compiled by ther American Council on Education, “a guide to the evaluation

SWEATIN IT OUT—By Mauldin Sp

Devise System for Granting Veterans' College Credits

of educational experiences in the armed forces,” which many schools and colleges are planning to use. It provides details of the various educational courses and training programs of the services and recommends the value of each course in terms of credits for secondary schools or higher institutions. It is a loose-leaf publication of more than 1000 pages kept up to date for subscribers. The second aid is a simplified credit application form prepared by the United States armed forces institute, entitled “application for credit for educational achievement during military service.” Individual members of the services can report certified records of their service training and education thereon directly to the educational institutions they plan to attend. The form is certified by the applicants’ commanding officer or other authorized officer. Tests of Three Types If the application is accepted on the certification shown, a copy is sent back to the applicant with the credits allowed, and a copy recorded at the institution, However, the institution may request that the applicant be examined, in ‘which case the applica tion goes to the United States armed forces institute. In this case the third aid is employed, a set of tests devised by

LEOPOLD TO STAY OUT OF BELGIUM

BRUSSELS, July 16 (U. P.).~— The political future of the Belgians still was up in the air today. Premier Achille Vanacker announced that the preesnt crisis had reached a stalemate when King Leopold fefused to abdicate. Vanacker said, however, that Leopold had decided not to return to Belgium. A$ the same time Van-

I |acker sald the Pfince Regent

Charles had refused to accept Van-) acker’s government's resignation and the government was hus continuing in office. _

the institute, which is the correspondence school of the armed forces. The desired tests are then forwarded to the certifying officer, given the applicant and forwarded to the institution requiring them. These tests are of three types. Subject examination tests, two or three hours long, test the achievement in standard secondary school or college courses. The second type, general educational development tests, measure the individual's general education including knowledge gained from travel, self-education, general reading and on-the-job experience. They are designed for individuals who left high school before obtaining diplomas but who have matured intellectually beyond the level indicated by their academic record.

give them directly to applicants.

Veterans may also take the tests after they have left the service.

» HANNAH

Labor Annual Wage Guarantee Is Debate Topic

By Secripps-Howaril Newspapers NEW YORK, July 16.—~There is

likely to be sharp disagreement

over the “guaranteed” portion of ,

the guaranteed annual wage, it was made apparent yesterday at an NBC radio forum on which representatives of business, ors ganized labor and the public discussed pay-by-the-year plans, Kermit Eby, C. I. O. educational director, said the guaranteed annual wage “can be made to

work” if business and labor co~ - operate closely in putting it into

operation., Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, research director of the U. 8. Cham~ ber of Commerce, said pay guaranteed by the year might easily place restrictions on busi ness that would “make the guaraneted annual wage of limited

value.”

Allan L. Swim, Scripps-Howard staff writer and “public representative on the program, said the guaranteed annual wage has benefited both management and labor in the plants in which it has operated in recent years. » - » “THE FIGHT for the guaranteed annual wage is a battle in the continuing war against pove erty,” Mr. Eby said. “We want jobs for all. We want work . .. not idleness. We are only asking what others have. A- company pays for land and buildings by the year, it plans its dividends two stockholders: by the year. Why should it not plan to pay its wageearners by the year?” Mr. Eby said the stabilization of purchasing power that would result from the guaranteed annual wage should make it possible for business to provide pay by the year.

Dr. Schmidt said: “We all are for the annual wage . .. but we disagree as to the ‘guarantee.’ “If an employer had to guar.antee pay by the year he probably would ‘dry up’ as a job maker.”

HE SAID the demands for prod-

ucts of an industry regulate its employment program and “the mere adoption of the guaranteed annual wage would not assure, for example, that the demand for steel would remain stable.” Dr. Schmidt said annual wage guarantees have worked successfully in a number of industrial plants and might be applied to others whose products are in constant demand. _

Jr. Swim wid oi + one good et

method of providing steady work and steady pay. It is a method that should be worked out jointly by management and labor. A wage guarantee can prevent heavy turn-over of labor and the costly training that goes with it. It makes it possible for the ‘eme ployer tc pay a smaller tax for unemployment compensation and to escape penalty overtime pay ments.”

Schools may obtain these tests and}

We, the Wom One-Sided Set Of Morals Is | Under Attack

By RUTH MILLETT WITHOUT any speech-making the American wife of the soldier who fathered an English girl's quadruplets has made a stand against the “boys will be boys and you mustn't expect a husband to be faithful inwartime" attitude that is being too generally accepted today. She has stood her * ground, refusing to give her husband a divorce. And she has maintained her dignity by refusing to try to compete with the other woman for her husband's affection. Wives have been sold & bill of

been told that the wife who has an affair with another man while "her husband is overseas is a complete no-good.

IN ENGLAND the other doy » a

“soldier, accused or strangling-his

wife"when he returned from over= seas to find her bearing another man’s child was acquitted of a murder charge. Said the court: “The provocation was such that an ordinary, frail man might have done what he did. While her husband, a very excellent man, was overseas fighting, she was. consorting with other men.” That is one side of the picture that wives are shown. The other Site is that the war weary soldier is entitled to love wherever he can find it, and that wives .