Indeed, an amusing war FOR THE AMERICANS One of the effects of this war is that England has to cede one base after the other to America. What else would have aroused the interest of America in this war other than "big business" or does any one of you earnestly believe that the Jews of Wallstreet and the stock-jobbers would care a damn about the welfare of the British Empire or perhaps the social condition of the English workman? The "man on the street" is always the fool in such a war. And the Americans want England to be the "man on the street" amongst the Allies. "America first" this is their slogan, and the sorry part of it is that they have the power to carry it through. No wonder the slogan "Americans first" applies also to the American soldiers in England. 70% of all American soldiers who came across to Europe are still hanging about at the training camps in England. And while their pals in Italy prefer to stay at the quiet sectors and manage to get with: drawn from the front before offensive operations are started, the Americans in England are proving by all means to be "quick workers". While you, poor ground hog, are fighting for your life on the inhospitable mountains of Southern Italy, the Ameri cans are having their "amusing war" in England. Did not the recent letters from home make you feel how their "fight for bases" is interfering more and more with family life in England? Surely, you can rely upon your wife or your girlbut what about the others who were also feeling sure and who have had their happiness destroyed by the well-fed and well-clad warriors from Overseas? And can you blame a woman for giving herself away to some handsome young boy if her husband has not been on leave for nearly a year? LwP 124/4-44