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Teachers young and friendly, wishing they could stay on an extra year, Principal Warren Haacke of Regina said it‘s a great experience. Bright young English teacher Bryce Tanner, a Kincardine boy, reads my column in the homeâ€" town paper, and reproduces some of them for the students. One more party to go to, an allâ€"Canadian bash. It was Here I was at home. Teased the kids about not having long hair, scared them about the big sausageâ€"factory schools they were going back to, signed autographs on copies of my column they had, and went for a ride in a simulated spaceâ€"ship with four little guys. A bright, lively group of youngsters, who are seeing a lot of Europe, but who all signiâ€" fied they ‘d be glad to get home to Canada. Anyway, the general made me feel safer about the Warâ€" saw Pact people on the other side of the Iron Curtain. They have more of everything, should hostilities break out, but ‘*we" have better hardware for both defence and attack. More fun than the lunch with the general was a visit I paid to the Canadian school at Ramstein. Only seventy kids and seven teachers, an ideal educational situation. The kids have it lucky and know it. So do the teachers. ’a reminder that he was keeping tfflékzvér;&'a;vc;;;l;)ound inâ€" terest, it was now in the neighbourhood of $40,000. Oh, the gay banter when we big wheels get together for lunch‘ He greeted me pleasantly, sat me on his right, and after some desultory luncheon tailk, gave me a lucid exposition of_the military picture, and kept waiting for me to ask intelligent, penetrating questions. I didn‘t have any. He threw my brother a compliment, telling me the kid was his rightâ€"hand man when it came to liaison with the French. My brother beamed. I threw a little cold water on him by reminding him that he wasn‘t always so smart. I used to borrow half his paper route money from him every Saturday night, and still owe him $7.45. He countered with It wasn‘t much of a lunch, as The General is a spartan type, one of those infuriating people who get up and jog in the morning, are on the job at 8 a.m., work like fury and have no bad habits. There was a gaggle of American one and twoâ€"star generals present, and two other Canadians, Colonel Smiley and Brig. Gen. ‘"Joey"" Romanow, a westerner. THE General, David C. Jones, has four stars, about as many as they hand out, and is Commanderâ€"inâ€"Chief, U.S. Air Force Europe, and Commander, 4th Allied Tactical Air Force. A real wheel. Highlight of the trip (for my kid brother), was Lunch With The General. He organizaed it, and as the time approached, there was so much excitement about it that I began to get the feeling I was going to have lunch with God. Unacquainted as I am with the military hierarchy, and unimpressed as I am with rank, I expect I didn‘t show the proper awe, but it was impressed on me from all sides that it was a signal honour. ~ I don‘t know what kind of a line my brother shiot about me, but it must have been a good on« It seems that The General just doesn‘t normally invite smallâ€"town columnists to lunch or anything else. â€" f, Cross my heart, I won‘t write another column about my trip to Germany. After this one. But I may never be treated as a distinguished visitor again, so you‘ll just have to bear with me. 2 Smiley n on t Sec yA VJ plane. Gatwick to Ottawa, Ottawa to Trenton. First casualty of trip. They‘d taken off my bag at Ottawa. Slept at officers mess, borrowed razor in, morning, had breakfast with R.C. Padre, most sensible chap â€"I‘d met in five days. Bag had arrived. Bummed ride to city with Bill Padden, Maâ€" jor, and his dog. Everything was running down, including yours truly. Fram Lunch With The General to sharing an old station wagon with a dachshund. Long, dreary bus ride. Connecting bus late. Sno wing. Finally home, feeling like a skeleton. And I knew the V.LP. was back to his usual Very Unimportant Person status, when my wife, after bussing me heartily, proclaimed, "Bill, I‘ve had a terrible time with those cats. + "uF 9y a pairl of red Skiing braces? My wife was horrified when I toid her, but I looked rather dashing. Off in the morning, groggy with fatigue, for the mad dash home. Ramstein to Lahr by autobahn. Lahr to Gatwick by nlana Aintudal 4« Amiuiclco s _ 2 WeW formal dress for officers. I had none, and wanted to tag aâ€" long in my blazer and flannels but the kid brother is a man for protocol, and would have none of it. He dug through his duds and the result was something to see. Can you picture your faithful correspondent in a pink evening shirt, with ruffles down the front, a huge black velvet bow tie, a black evening jacket big enough for two of him, black evening trousers cutting him in two (my brother is shorter) held up by a pair of red skiing braces? My wife was horrified when I toid her, but I looked rather dashing. I got on the VIP party circuit "Cut"", as we say in the movies. ',W%wvâ€"w\ 00 â€" " “*\_¥‘_h> + h _ _ € } | L x 0f * _ : © mm . t ~ 3â€". N. § n x4 : C3 Es M 4 gost L , m . t 3 w4 i /. . Ld. | 7: * y / â€" y . [ M t t 1 5+. P se .4 & "g n e en s 0. 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