Verhovayak Lapja, 1953 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1953 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 14 Verhovay THE ARMY By PFC. STEVE MISLAY Branch 21 Youngstown, Ohio WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN KOREA . .. What with this static war we have learned to settle down and partake in many of the usual Army pastimes. In this case there, was a party. The party was in celebration of my year’s stay in Korea. Of course it was about three months too late for I’m embarking upon my fifteenth Korean month. Besides we already had a party commemorating my year anniversary. Our parties are the usual affairs. If two men get together and start drinking it’s the beginning of a party. Now for me to state how and where we acquired the V. O. and Canadian Club, the two most honored guests, would be revealing top military secrets. Being security-minded as I am, let’s just say friends presented us with a few bottles of same. As I said, this party started out slow, picking up a few stragglers along the way. Before long the tempo was up and about eight of us had a humdinger of a brawl going full blast. Back at rear area headquarters, where the party was held, the troops live in tents, and at night everybody discards all clothing except perhaps the bottoms of the long John winter underwear and Korean house slippers. While sitting about drinking and making merry, the crowd resembles •a bunch of wrestlers from the gay nineties era. One of the forward observers, Dick Kush, of Rockford, Illinois, sports one of those long handlebar mustaches which makes him a deadringer for one of the ole timers. Back in the early summer of last year I cultivated a cookie-duster that became my pride and joy. It was a long flowing thing with the ends curling upwards. At the time it was the vogue to wear a mustache and have your hair sheared off to about a half inch of fuzz remaining. We had an outfit of Turks dug in along side us, and that was the way they groomed themselves, 'long mustaches and practically no hair on their heads. The shaving off of my mustache came when one day, while driving ■along in a jeep and approaching an MP check point, I was forced to pull over to allow a convoy of Turks by. After throwing me a quick glance the MP waved me on and motioned to follow right on thru with the Turks. I threw the jeep in high gear, waved him a thank-you-pal, and went on my way brushing aside all those nasty rumors I had heard concerning MPs and their behavior. About a mile from the front lines, I tried to turn off to the left heading towards one of our searchlight positions, When the MP at that cross road started frantically waving me on with the convoy. I stopped to 'explain that I wanted to go in that direction, to the left not straight to the front with the Turks. He said he was sorry but with Iny long mustache he had mistaken me for one of the Turks in the convoy. Right there and then I decided to avoid any further complications by shaving it off. Well now, getting back to the party. Things were going along great until one of the lads who was high as a kite started horsing around with me, pretending he really was a wrestler instead of just looking the part. ‘ After breaking myself free from two of his half nelson strangle holds, I decided I too was. a wrestler, but; instead of locking arms with him in mortal combat I grabbed him by the legs, threw him over my shoulders and proceeded to carry him out the tent towards the nearby waist deep stream running along side our area. Although we had practically no clothes on we felt protected from the cold night air by the generous isupply of anti-freeze in our systems. At the stream, with the somewhat able assistance of the remainder of THE SOVIET FATEFUL QUESTIONS The question which the new Kremlin leadership is desperately asking itself, the Voice of America is declafing overseas, is whether, now that Stalin is gone, his system of terrorism, slavery, and social retrogression can survive. In pressing home the disquieting possibilities which both Kremlin and satellite leaders now face, VOA centered its speculation on five fateful questions: Can Malenkov, surrounded by rivals who are his seniors, achieve Stalin’s position of unchallengeable power? In the absence of Stalin’s power1 find prestige, can his satellite empire; be held together ? Can the stooges fill the boss’s shoes ? Why have Stalin’s heirs already broken the will? (Why for example, VOA asked, did they scrap Stalin’s elaborate reorganization of the Communist Party, promulgated only last October at the 19th Party Congress?) Will Mao, until now second only to Stalin, accept a new Russian demigod? KOREA LOADED LETTERS The Defense Department (said this month that the Communists are using some American and other U. N. prisoner's lof war in Korea as propaganda tools. The aim, the Department 'added, is to “mobilize the presjsure of public opinion on the U.S. Government and the United Nations to accept Communist terms for an armistice.” In warning friends and relatives of captured soldiers; (against believing the Communist propaganda found in letters home, the Department said (some American prisoners are “being put through an intensive program of indoctrination Journal the party crowd, I heave-hoed our chum smack into the water. While standing upon the bank laughing like mad, we awaited the screams and howls of our sea-going friend. Instead he was splashing about singing and having a grand i ime. I somewhat envied him out there in the water enjoying himself, and not being one to miss out on all the fun, I yelled, “Gung Ho,” then jumped in joining our pal. That was the cue for the others’ cause they followed' suit and jumped in after me. For about three minutes, just enough to allow the water to sober us up, we were all splashing about having a gay time. After drying ourselves off back lit the tent, we called an end to the party and turned in for the night. But two of the party boys kept right at it, insisting we were party poopers for breaking up the fun. Thru their shenanigans they yanked jthe center tent poles out, causing the entire tent to collapse over our heads. Egad but what a night! by political commissars in order to persuade them to accept and support Communist propaganda,” The Department said further: Since only letters approved by the Communists are permitted to leave (the camp, these soldiers cannot be blamed for cooperating- with their captors to the extent of including Communist propaganda in their letters. The Communists do not accept the Idea that a soldier who has been captured in battle has been removed from the conflict. U. N. STAND The United Nations is resolved that the fighting in Korea must be bfought to a successful end with a minimum of bloodshed, and stands ready to |solve the problem honorably by peaceful means. This was reiterated this month by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., chief U. S. delegate to the United Nations, who pointed out: On the other hand, the free world ■remains determined to stand by the Indian resolution and the principlethat no prisoner should be returned ugainst his will, a human principle if ever there was one; a principle which clearly delineates the difference between us because it shows where man is considered to be the master of the state and where man is considered to be the servant of the State. We refuse to support a cease-fire which leaves thousands of United Nations prisoners as hostages in Communist hands. Communist intransigence compels us to face the facts with courage and determination and 'to continue to strive against aggression until the moral and physical power of the United Nations has had (its inevitable effect, which I think will be soon in coming. BUY U. S. SAYINGS BONDS April 15, 1953 WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Klics were married February 14, 1953. Mr. Klics, who has become noticeably active as a mer/ber of Branch 87, Passaic, New Jersey, came to this country about a year ago. His bride, the former Erika Motteler, (arrived from Germany a short while back. Her application for Verhovay membership is already in the Home Office. Branch 87 extends its best wishes to the K-icses. Varga-Modern Photo MRS. GÉZA BOJSKO Miss Helen Gyarmathy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Czigany, Trenton, New Jersey, and Geza Bojsko, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bojsko, Trenton, New Jersey, were married Saturday, February 7, 1953, '.at St. Stephen’s Church of the same city. The bride was escorted by her father. Miss Margaret Kiszeli was maid of honor while Marianne Lamarca was flower girl. Miss Anna Bojsko, sister of the groom, and Miss Helen Vartas served as bridesmaids. Steven Szepesi, Jr. acted as best man and Vincent de Szentivanyi and Richard Rein were the ushers. After a reception held at the Calvin Church Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Bojsko left for a trip to Canada. They will live at 1619 Genesee Street, Trenton, New Jersey. The bride’s mother is one of the most active members of Trenton’s Branch 13 to which branch the newlyweds belong and the entire family are Verhovay members. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFS
