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a microphone. They know and respect the Gennans as a great people."
That is the end of the quotation of the letter from the gentleman who lives in the state of Texas, in the city of Dallas, at number 3200 Greenbrier Drive. I know that he does not represent the feeling of the great majority of the people in Texas . . . certainly not the Texans whom it has been my privilege to meet on my several trips into the southwestern part of the United States. He does not represent the men from Texas who have been blasting the Germans from one pill-box after another in the fortified town of Dillengen . . . men who are members of the American 90th Infantry Division. Nor does he represent the men from the state of Texas who waded ashore on the island of New Britain in the face of withering machine gun fire . . . even though those men were fighting the Japanese and not the Germans. Nor does the gentleman represent the men and women of the state of Texas who volunteered for the armed services of the United States before Pearl Harbor. The state of Texas had the highest per capita voluntary enlistment prior to Pearl Harbor in the military forces of this country. Possibly he represents merely the household at 3200 Greenbrier Drive in the city of Dallas . . . or maybe only himself. God forbid that he speak for the state of Texas which has shed its blood so profusely in this war for freedom. God forbid that he speak for the boys and girls of the Sul Ross School in Waco . . the men and women of Southwestern University in Georgetown . . . the
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high school children of Waco and every other high school and university in Texas. Gkxl forbid that he speak for Letty Jo Culley at Baylor University, whose home is in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and who daily follows the course of this war as she prepares to take her place in a future world which she will help to mould. God forbid that he speak for my daughter, >Shirley, who soon goes to Texas to work on the Dallas Morning News. It was my intention to ansv/er the gentleman from 3200 Greenbrier Drive in Dallas, but Hal Boyle has written the answer . . . he's typed the "Greatness" of the German people in the red blood of American soldiers who were slaughtered yesterday . . . mowed down by German fire as they stood completely disarmed, huddled in a field after having been trapped and taken as prisoners of war. Hal Boyle has answered the man on Greenbrier Drive in Dallas as to how considerate the Germans are of those who fall into their hands.
Here is Hal Boyle's story . . . a staff member of the Associated Press attached to American armies on the western front:
" W e e p i n g with rage, a handful of doughboy survivors described today how a German tank force ruthlessly poured
Hal Boyle went ovcncas u'lth AP after a stint as night editor 0/ T^ew TotIi s AP ef/ice. At home, he ana Frances live down m the Village, in a booll'lined apart' mcnt heated only and admirably by two /ireplacej. Princes ha< earlygray hair and amazing l<lue eyei; married Hal 5 yeari ago at The Little Church Around the Comer. She's a Kansas City girl, too. She coolis peas on the hal/'shell and keeps a (lipping boo\ of her husband's articles. Hal once jtarted a literary agency, interrupted by the war.