Word: kuhl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This collection of innuendoes and untruths was hardly on the streets before mischief-mongering O'Donnell found himself caught, for once. The soldier Patton had slapped, Charles H. Kuhl, was not Jewish but of German descent. All of the Jewish leaders except Justice Frankfurter (who follows the court custom of ignoring press comment) issued denials...
...Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...
...isolated incident quickly became two. Bellicose Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. had degraded another enlisted man. Private Charles Herman Kuhl had written home to Indiana: "General Patton slapped my face yesterday and kicked me in the pants and cussed me." Kuhl, like the unnamed artilleryman whose slapping precipitated the Patton case (TIME, Nov. 29), had also been hospitalized for psychoneurosis...