"Please Refrain. . . ."

Nazi field commanders, trying to hold waverers in line, were patently annoyed at the "safe-conduct" passes dropped by Allied planes on German positions, which as a rule promise the bearer unmolested passage through the lines and decent treatment in captivity. Recently the night-flying Luftwaffe has been dropping on Allied positions the German retort, a mock pass which reads:

"The German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to go into captivity for the next ten years, to betray his fatherland, to return home a broken old man and very probably never to see his parents, wife and children again.

"Signed. . . . Dwight D. Eisenhower. Supreme Commander Military [sic] Expeditionary Forces."

On the reverse side: "We are returning your age-old dodge. . . . It was highly amusing. . . . But please refrain from molesting us further. . . ."

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