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...commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said angrily: "If the Army says it has difficulty in making its orders stick, then I say: 1) it's a hell of a poor army which can't enforce its own orders; 2) how many commanders who have been lax have been shifted to other posts? Mighty few." Bad to Better. As of last week, the situation was better than it had been, but still bad. The surprising thing was that there had not been more disorder. There had been brawls, sporadic outbursts...
...invasion armies have behaved well, the English with disciplined correctness, the Americans with careless camaraderie. Civil affairs officers have stopped the indiscriminate sale of brandy. So far as I can see, they are neither too officious nor too lax. Soldiers wave at pretty, apple-cheeked girls on the streets and in the country, but they have not been too forward with their attentions. These are businesslike armies and they have plenty of business ahead. If they stick to it the people of Normandy will like them, and a delicate problem of international relations will get off to a good start...
...average, the Army has paid out 80% of the dollar value of claims. To Colonel Hauseman this is an eminently satisfactory percentage. If it were much less, some would quibble that contractors' claims had been exorbitant. If it were much more, the Army might be suspected of too lax a hold on the purse strings...
Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
...pachucos had asked for trouble, they got more than was coming to them last week. The military authorities were notably lax (all shore and camp leave could easily have been canceled), the Los Angeles police apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...