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The Rouen Post, October 1947 Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker The Rouen Post Base Hospital 21 Collection 10-1947 The Rouen Post, October 1947 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/rouen_post Recommended Citation "The Rouen Post, October 1947" (1947). The Rouen Post. Paper 110. https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/rouen_post/110 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Base Hospital 21 Collection at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rouen Post by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ROUEN Base Hospital 21- World War I POST 21st Gen. Hosp. - World War ll A P A P E R D E V 0 T E D T 0 T H E I N T E R E S T S 0 F R 0 U E N p O S T N o. 2 4 2 GRETHE KNUDSEN REPORTS city-at lovely homes-dinners at restau- ON EUROPE • rants, and balls-just a glorious mad round of pleasure-and I loved it. The 12th of June I left Denmark by air and flew to Prague, it only took three hours. It was a beautiful plane, good service but 3 Grethe Knudsen and rough ride. I sat and ate lunch while four Dinah •. • Miss Knud­ gentlemen were sitting around me, giving sen was a member of their all in nice little paper bags. You know the 21st General Hos­ me, never miss a meal, especially a free meal! pital Unit of World After two days in Prague with friends and War n. She now four days in Klatovy near Pilsen with a malrns her home in doctor's family I knew, I went back to Chicago, Illinois. Prague. Next day I went sight-seeing on a bus in true tourist fashion. But it was so hot! After five hours of seeing castles, churches, statues and views I was one tired puppy. I I rebelled on Count Wallenstein's castle and sat me down in the court yard, refusing to move. The guide was much perturbed and kept waving to me thru each successive win­ dow as the other poor tourists kept climbing -up and up-to see some elegant view. I Now, I am back in good old U .S.A . again shook my head "no" and I know from the - and while I love to make tracks to other looks I got that people thought I was being places. the U.S.A . looks better and better rather -'acrilegious not following them fur­ each time I come back home! As I passed the ther. Statue of Liberty, I inadvertently thought of the countries and the peoples of other coun­ One sight very commonplace in Czechslo­ tries that I have recently visited; and realized vakia is the daily communistic parades and how those people would give their souls to gatherings. They, the workers, adore going see that Statue. knowing they were to live in thru the streets in work clothes. with the our wonderful land-away from ruination. Soviet salute on high (clenched fist held starvation, uncertainty, political upheaval. high) singing their raucous and unmelodius economic distress and many other smaller songs. President Benes, whom the majority miseries. had such faith in, has been a big disappoint­ I want to thank Major Spalding and ment. He has been to Moscow, received his others for the friendly telegram which orders and has communists in high offices of awaited me in my cabin on the Gripsholm the government. However, folks were hope­ when I sailed in May. I only hope our group ful because they made so many mistakes in received my cable sent from Copenhagen, to governing that they hoped the communists all of you at the reunion. I was there-in would soon blunder themselves out of office. spirit! But I'll be there the next time. That day is yet to come. Meanwhile, com­ I had a perfectly marvelous time in Den­ munism ~s r~ising it's ugly head-and getting mark-parties, good gab-fests with old away with it. friends and reunions with relatives-staying The stores are full of very poor merchan­ at country homes-at the seashore-in the dise, at fantastic prices, for example, $35.00 for a little cheaply made suit. Shoes, ordi­ OCTOBER 1947 nary novelty shoes, for vacationing, crudely THE ROUEN POST made, $25.00 and $30.00. These prices are with paltry rags at the windows. Naples is in American dollars, therefore, almost im­ slowly being reconstructed, with public possible for the ordinary Czech to buy. So buildings first. then larger apartment build­ much for Czechoslovakia. I did have a grand ings and much later the private homes will time while there because I knew such fine be repaired-perhaps? Their transportation people. is pretty well under conrol and that is a great The next hop was to Rome. I might say in job done. passing that the Czech planes needed reno­ In the afternoon I took a taxi to T erme vating and so did the stewardess. Things Agnano, our old home. The place is going weren't as super neat and in ship-shape as great guns, with all the sulphur holes un­ they were on Danish, Swedish, Dutch and plugged and the lovely odor of rotten eggs American planes. In Rome I stayed with the again mixes with the wistaria bloom per­ Danish government representative at the fume. The first person to greet me was Enzia Danish Legation. I lived like a queen-being Alfiero the nice looking little waitress we had waited on hand and foot. And I loved it. Ele­ in our mess hall. She rushed towards me in gant little "intime" dinners on the terrazzo her effusive Italian fashion and called me by at 9:30 in the evening, in their lovely mod­ name, much to my amusement. She asked ernized 15th century home, overlooking the about everyone, Colonel Cady, Colonel Tiber and the Coloseum, with swallows Drake, Major Spalding and Sergeant Willis. whizzing all around us. Very different and I took pictures inside and outside and will very Capesetic. Believe me, I ate it up. I send you copies for the Rouen Post. (Miss adore being waited on. Who doesn't? After Knudsen, we have not yet received them.) two days there I went shopping with Mrs. Enzia sent fond greetings to every one and Bull. my hostess. We wandered thru the assured me she missed us all. She would like well-stocked shops and saw gorgeous linge­ to have some one write to her at T erme. rie, clothes, shoes-everything elegant, ex­ An attendant there informed me that now quisite-and, for Americans, with prices in they had all new tubs and had the place normal limits. The lira was quoted at 550 lira clean-after the way we left it. I certainly to the dollar at banks but 730 lira to the dol­ told him that the 21st were not the final oc­ lar on the street, if you had American dollar cupants and that we cleaned the place to a bills not larger than ten dollar denomina­ sparkling brilliance before leaving. If it was tions. I bought fresh fruit and lucious choco­ left dirty some one else was responsible. lates to take back to Denmark with me. I also Good thing I got there to keep our good bought lingerie, shoes and a cute beach bag. name shining. It looked sort of sad though to~ether with other novelties. to see the lame and the halt wandering about. Next day I took the electric train to sniffing the horrible fumes of sulphur in the Naples where I visited the Contessa Bal­ hopes of gaining health and straight, strong samo, a lady of Danish birth, whom I met bodies. At least, we looked better than that, during our stay in Naples when the old 21st even after the grind we had in Italy. was in the fairgrounds. The trip by rail was I then drove past the fairgrounds- I could very smooth and comfortable-three hours not get in as it is completely encircled with from Roma to Napoli. Talked and shared barbed wire and impenetrable-to keep lunch with a very interesting Italian profes­ homeless people from squatting in the empty sor who had attended Cambridge and Ox­ buildings while the government makes up it's ford, who had just returned from the U .S.A . mind what to do about it. Rumor has it that He had worked on the atom bomb develop­ a permanent exposition will be placed there ment with Professor Ferme' of Italy. The to attract tourists. All of the buildings and "road to Rome" looked just as we left it­ walls are now painted crudely with Viva Formia - Velletri - Itri - N ettuna - Anzio - Umberto and Viva la Republica instead of Cassino - Aversa - Capua-all just as I re­ Viva ii Duce-as when we were there. membered them-ruined-wreckage strewn Back to Rome, on to Geneva, Switzerland about-not a sign of a brick having been for a day and then from that little story-book picked up or any repairs done. People are country to Amsterdam. Holland. One day in living in the shells of bombed-out houses Amsterdam and then " home" to Copenhagen THE ROUEN POST where I stayed until August 8. After travel­ We might add that the Corrubia's of Tul­ ing all over Denmark, talking and eating my sa are a couple of busy people.
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