“BLAZE OF SILK”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 4

“BLAZE OF SILK”

ON AMERICAN SOLDIERS CRITICISED BY SERVICE NEWSPAPER CONTRAST WITH BRITISH TOMMY (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. Too many United Slates soldiers are “ablaze with bits of coloured silk,” says “Stars and Stripes,” the United States service men’s newspaper. "Maybe it is too late to do anything about'it, but we would like a petition to the War Department to spare us some of this shower of silken recognition. A clerk selling razor blades a thousand miles from the nearest gun might possibly be wearing a pre-Pearl Harbour good conduct ribbon, or European, Asiatic or American theatre ribbons. Sitting next to him might be a Tommy who went through Dunkirk, was blitzed in London, torpedoed in the Mediterranean, fought in Greece and Crete and had been driven up and down the desert between Alexandria and Tunis for three years, but the Tommy would have nothing over his sturdy chest and heart except his shirt—and a letter demanding his 1942 income tax .immediately.”