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...Bratton Flayed...
...humble opinion Mr. C. B. Bratton of Waco, Texas, displays a great lack of information in his letter flaying Mr. Newton D. Baker which appears in your Dec. 5 issue of TIME. In his letter he says something about men that held commissions in the A. E. F. From his letter I am not sure that he knows that General Pershing and Vice President Dawes, held commissions in the A. E. F. They did, however, and I know they will be glad to tell him that his letter is absurd. Anyone that reads at all knows in what esteem these...
...Bratton in his letter to you has the temerity to attempt to speak for every "man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F." and the effrontery to speak insultingly of a man of whom General John J. Pershing recently said: "No man was ever faced with a greater problem than our War Secretary in 1917. . . . He met the situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely...
Sirs : In connection with the mention of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom...
...BRATTON...