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Like many G.I.s, Willie and Joe found it hard to get back into civilian life. Like their creator, baby-faced Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, they had found the issues much simpler Up Front than Back Home. This week, tired of coping with the problem of reconverting Willie, Joe and himself, Mauldin quit as a syndicated newspaper cartoonist...
...good many editors had already beaten him to the draw. They had bought his cartoons on the strength of their wartime popularity and their often bitter humor. When Mauldin went political on them, played footie with the far left and crusaded for an understanding with Russia, papers began dropping his cartoons...
When the Soviet's actions at U.N. turned Mauldin into what he called "a disillusioned fellow traveler," he turned to obscure crusades that baffled many a reader and lost him more papers. Though 182 papers used to carry him, only 56 ran his last cartoon this week...
...Some of my best friends are officers. But the assumption that officers are gentlemen and enlisted men are peas ants is a hangover from the Middle Ages. The caste system makes it a degrading and humiliating thing to be an enlisted man, and it shouldn't be." Mauldin wanted courts-martial composed 50-50 of officers and enlisted men, thought that officers should serve in the ranks first...
...Mauldin's remarks, which would surprise no readers of his Up Front but did not exactly follow the Annapolis line, brought enthusiastic applause. His audience knew what he was talking about: of 2,815 midshipmen at the postwar Academy, 54% have done time as enlisted...