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¶Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens admitted "defects in the Army procedures" that promoted an Army dental officer while his loyalty was seriously in question and gave him an honorable discharge a few days after he pleaded self-incrimination to avoid answering McCarthy's questions about Communist activity. The...
Caught by the doctors' draft in the fall of 1952, Peress was commissioned, no questions asked. When an Army officers' loyalty questionnaire was sent to him, Peress refused to fill it out. While one arm of the Army was investigating him, another arm gave Peress a routine promotion...
Swinging Doors. Why, McCarthy wanted to know, did "this Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the...
They explained that the Air Force's real personnel problem will not begin until July. All these who enlisted for the normal four year period after the Korean war started, hoping to avoid the Army draft, will be eligible for discharge at that time.
It is also hopelessly impractical, for, while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked...