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Last May she changed her mind. She decided to devote the midnight oil one night a week to pounding out a weekly column, free, to the CBI Roundup, weekly paper published in New Delhi for U.S. troops in China, Burma and India under command of Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. She had met U.S. soldiers in China and Burma in 1942, she knew how they longed for news from home...
...Roundup was proud and pleased. It advertised Clare Luce's column as its only exclusive feature. Last week, on orders from the War Department, Clare Luce's column was killed...
...Department explained that the column had contained the writer's views on controversial political questions, and therefore had no place in an Army publication. The Department did not explain why this rule was not applied to Columnist Drew Pearson, who is also published in Roundup...
Another agency for military procurement, FBI, put on a special weekend roundup that located 638 draft-dodgers in 20 cities. G-men are handling about 15,000 draft complaints a month, have "located and made available" 86,543 men-enough for six infantry divisions...
...Roundup, U.S. soldiers' newspaper in Delhi, India, spoke earthy words against homesickness: "All you jerks want to return to the States because of some woman. This type of thinking, gents, is a snare and a delusion. . . . Now she's probably driving a six-by-six truck. When you get back...