An edition of Europe Now
(1945)
Europe Now
A First Hand Report
by H.V. Kaltenborn
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION xi
CHAPTER ONE
FLIGHT TO EUROPE
A Place on a Plane - "Captain" if Captured - Priorities Are Graded - Lifeboat Briefing - Flight Nurse - Bermuda - First Stop - Night Landing in the Azores 1
CHAPTER TWO
NORTH AFRICA
Casablanca - From Peace to War - Black Market in North Africa - Conditions in Tunis 14
CHAPTER THREE
ITALY'S DILEMMA
Zig-Zag Flight to Naples - The Ride to Rome - Blackout and Broadcast - Hotel Majestic in Wartime - First Contacts - Who Governs Rome? - Recreation Center for Soldiers - Visit to the Vatican - Private Audience - Political Interviews - Does Italy Want a King? - Visiting the Italian Front - Luncheon with General Alexander - At the Fifth Army Front - General Clark and his Pipe Line - Shops and Prices in Rome - Officers on Leave - At Mediterranean Command Headquarters - On Mussolini's Balcony 30
CHAPTER FOUR
REBIRTH OF FRANCE
Desolation from the Air - Paris Ever Beautiful - The Ritz - Army Hotel - The Red Cross in Paris - Eisenhower - Wide Choice of Entertainment - Folies Bergeres - Shopping in Paris - Paris Papers - Talks with French Journalists - English - Language Newspapers - The French Parliament - The French Foreign Policy - France Solves her Transport Problems - Dinner at Prunier's 52
CHAPTER FIVE
WESTERN FRONT
To the Front Via Rheims - The Front in Luxemburg - My First Buzz-Bombs - What Makes for Morale? - General Vandenberg's Headquarters - An Active Front - Talks with Civilians - Teamwork Between Air and Ground Forces - The Spirit of the Infantry - Traffic Identification - The Tenth Armored Division - A Successful Action - U.S. Military Government Aachen - Interview with a German Mayor - Currency Regulations - Rich and Poor in Aachen - Running the Aachen Bank - No Fraternization - Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda - Frontline Propaganda Leaflets - Who Travels the Highways? - Conditions in Luxemburg - Valuation Versus Stabilization - Transportation and Tires - Problem of French Finance - Who is a Collaborator? - U.S. Recognition Too Slow - "Resistance Psychology" - The Eighth Base Hospital - Trench Foot Appears 83
CHAPTER SIX
BELGIUM
Arrival in Belgium - Debate in the Belgian Senate - Communists in the Cabinet - Communist Influence Destructive - Antwerp Undamaged - Broadcasting from Holland - Talks with German Prisoners - Examining a Lieutenant - Germans after the War 119
CHAPTER SEVEN
UNFLINCHING BRITAIN
Ninety Minutes to London - First Drive Through London - London Streets Are Still Dark - Bombproof British - An Incident in London - Labor Party Conference - Labor Views on Germany - What Is Vansittartism? - Food in London Restaurants - British Opinion on Greece - The Eden - Churchill Team - Disarming of Resistance Forces - The Eighth Air Force - Where Every Second Counts - Reverse Lend-Lease - Weather Service - What the Air Force Has Done - Decline of the German Air Force - Radar - Word of Mystery - Starting for Home - Delayed by Weather - Off for Scotland - Luncheon in Scotland - Dinner in Iceland - A One World Symbol 133
CHAPTER EIGHT
SUMMING UP
New Conflicts Loom in Europe - No Normalcy for Europe - How Long de Gaulle? - Britain - Democracy's Best Hope - Unhappy Italy - The Place of the Vatican - The Men Who Fight for Us 165
EPILOGUE 179
INDEX 183
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