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There were two different problems, confusingly interwoven: "Blood and Guts" and Truth and Confidence. On the Senate's list of promotions was Patton (to the permanent rank of Major General).
The very serious charge against "Old Blood & Guts" was that he had committed one of the unforgivable military sins: he had struck, vilified and degraded an enlisted soldier. Worse than that, the soldier was a casualty of battle.
This made snow-haired Leo Crowley (ten years ago a relatively obscure Wisconsin businessman) the czar of all foreign economic dealings, which are the guts of foreign relations. Significantly Crowley will work with the State Department, but answers only to the President.
"Colonel Roosevelt stood up with a map in his hand and every time a gun fired jotted down its position. They fired at us for half an hour, barely missing us several times. The Colonel noticed I was scared and said: 'You're safe with me. I was...
Give Out! is the work of one Eric Posselt, who thought there ought to be a book of songs sung by servicemen, not at them. He ruled out Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps...