Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and the U.S. people talked things over last week, finally decided they had better trust each other. ''The Patton affair" (see p. 69) became a test for the democratic maturity of both...
...first tendency of the people and the Congress (see p. 15) was to regard the Patton affair as a shocking but isolated incident in an officer's career...
Military men who guarded their code of conduct did not take a lenient, civilian view. Their attitude was reflected in their service journals. The Army & Navy Register attributed the "regrettable affair...
...familiar with the Articles of War, and with the punishment of dismissal they prescribe for cruel treatment of a soldier or for conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Service . . . [Patton] was not made subject to the Articles. . . . There are lessons to be drawn from this deplorable affair which the High Command hereafter should enforce. The kind of a democratic Army we have requires . . . discipline based upon mutual respect. . . . Officers, no matter what their rank, guilty of conduct undermining it, should be relieved instantly from their command...
LOOK YOUR LAST - John Stephen Strange-Crime Club ($2). The murder of an obscure little man in a Manhattan lodging house develops into an affair with international ramifications, all followed to their surprising end by sharp-eyed and nimble-witted News Photographer Gantt...