No sooner had U. S. troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens.
Last week Nazi efficiency, aping U. S. individualism, had established not one but ten newspapers for German soldiers fighting World War II. Some were published at the front, others in Berlin and Breslau for front-line distribution....
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