The World Isn't Going Backward, If You

Freedom Of The Press Is Guaranteed Only To Those Who Own One.

I Had An Attack Of The Gout Two Days Before Pulling Out, And I Went Limping Off To The War Instead Of Coming Limping Back From It.

To The Parisians, And Especially To The Children, All Americans Are Now 'heros Du Cinema.' This Is Particularly Disconcerting To Sensitive War Correspondents, If Any, Aware, As They Are, That These Innocent Thanks Belong To Those American Combat Troops Who Won The Beachhead And Then Made The Breakthrough. There Are Few Such Men In Paris.

Forget That New Orleans Is Actually A Little Like The Combat Zone With French Cooking, It Still Happens To Be Part Of The Great State Of Louisiana Where People Play The Political Game The Same Way It's Played In Lebanon. The Place Is One Layer After Another Of Tribes, Factions And At Least A Million Laughs.

A Louisiana Politician Can't Afford To Let His Animosities Carry Him Away, And Still Less His Principles, Although There Is Seldom Difficulty In That Department.