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...Philip B. Lorenz (TIME Letters, Dec. 7), in commenting on General McNair's words . . . advances a disturbing philosophy, when he says: "In the biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...
Some 3,000,000 will in a sense have dinner on a brisk, sandy-haired little man: Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It is he who is training the new Army's doughboys, anti-aircraftsmen, field artillerymen, tankers, cavalrymen-all except the airmen and the Services of Supply-for the toughest war any U.S. army ever had to fight...
Lust for Battle. "I found many things wrong but I am never satisfied anyway," said General McNair, at the Tennessee maneuvers 18 months...
...things have changed for Lieut. General Lesley James McNair since he expressed that dissatisfaction. Then he was charged with supervising the peacetime maneuvers of 27 infantry divisions. Then his artillery was mostly wooden sticks. There were two armored divisions in possible running order with some obsolete light tanks. Such devices as air-bome, mountain and amphibious troops were futuristic experiments. About 1,000,000 soldiers had been inducted into the U.S. Army. Some of them seemed to like playing soldier, but many others were writing to Senator Burt Wheeler to complain about their morale...
...year and a half of kaleidoscopic transition failed to change General McNair's dissatisfaction. A soft-spoken man with light blue eyes, he is perhaps the 20-minute hardboiled realist of the U.S. high command. When others were gasping at the growing might of the U.S. Army in October 1941 (around 1,600,000), McNair said only: "Our great potentialities must not lull us into complacency." Earlier (in Louisiana) he got to the verge of unbridled praise: "If the troops' equipment were completed, they would give a better account of themselves today than American troops...