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...Reverend Arlan Baillie of Boston criticized General McNair's statement in regard to the proper fighting spirit [TIME, Nov. 23: "We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill."]. Reverend Baillie stated that such an attitude was not proper for a leader of fighting men, and wrote to President Roosevelt asking for McNair's removal...
...endorse most heartily the letter . . . by Arlan Baillie in your Letters Column, TIME, Dec. 7. Had I an 18-year-old boy in service I'd certainly hate to see him in Lieut. General McNair's command. And now, according to the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 4, there's a plan afoot to register the 14-year-olds for military training! Why not ten or twelve-year-olds, or can't they learn to hate that early...
...question of preparing youngsters who had never seen death for the task of killing. With little groups of men younger than himself the 25-year-old lieutenant colonel sat under eucalyptus trees and expounded the kill-or-be-killed philosophy which President Roosevelt and Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair were to adopt in their speeches months later. "You've got to get in there and kill the Jap or he'll kill you," said Buzz...
...regard to the speech of Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair . . . every Christian man and woman in our country ought to recognize that a man who holds such bloodthirsty and unchristian ideas is not morally fit to be a leader of American soldiers. We ought all, as I have, write to President Roosevelt requesting his immediate removal...
...Said General McNair: "We must hate with every fiber . . . We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill. There need be no pangs of conscience, for our enemles have lighted the way to faster, surer, crueler killing...