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...Arrived, in Stockholm, from Germany: U.S. Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark with wife & son, on a "cartel-smashing trip." Said Clark: "General McNarney suggested my having a look at the Swedish beauties and here I am." Said the pilots of his plane: "A regular guy. He put us on his expense account...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former Lichfield commandant and the first higher-up arraigned, threw the court into uproar with contentious motions. He had appealed to President Truman for an inquiry into the trials. He called General Joseph T. McNarney, the Army's boss in Europe, to the stand. Higher-ups were going to be hard...
General Joseph T. McNarney was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Bath by George VI at Buckingham Palace...
...week when USFET Commander General Joseph T. McNarney told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items...
Scandalized by the behavior of U.S. soldiers in Europe, General Joseph T. McNarney had laid on the lash of stricter discipline (TIME, May 6). In theory, the tightened rules were to apply to both officers and enlisted men, but in practice, rank still had its privileges. Those privileges were still being abused, notably in Nürnberg...