The Arts of Peace

On the rue d Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates--to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture.

The St. Germain school is one of the first G.I. schools to be set up under the Army's mammoth post-V-E education program for servicemen & women temporarily stranded in Europe (TIME, Oct. 16). To keep everybody busy, the program includes every phase of education, from vocational training to graduate courses in universities like Cambridge and the Sorbonne. But unit command schools (established by battalions) like St. Germain's form by far the biggest part of the pro gram. By August i there will be one such school for every 1,000 soldiers. Every soldier who is not assigned to urgent duty will be required to attend for two hours a day (unless he prefers drill and supervised athletics) until there is enough shipping space to bring him home.

Other phases of the Army education program are now getting under way. British universities are enrolling their first small batches of G.I.s, will soon take many more.

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