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Just a year after V-E day, the U.S. Army's reputation in Europe-once as bright and shining as a liberator's sword-had disintegrated into disrepute. Last week General Joseph McNarney, commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater, finally cracked the whip of discipline on the Army of Occupation in Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe...
...governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
Just as General McNarney left for a vacation in Switzerland, news came from the British zone which froze all the optimism. "With great regret" and as a result of "unforeseen developments," the British slashed their zone's rations by about...
...Despite McNarney's optimistic estimate, the U.S. could hardly help without cutting its own 1,550 calories. The French zone was at the bottom of its flour bin. The Russians pointedly hinted that everything was all right in their zone; actually, they might soon be facing serious shortage themselves. The food crisis spurred hopes of a zoneless four-power administration of Germany...
...simple as that. Even occupation troops in Germany and Japan, who should have known better, joined the chorus. In Frankfurt 2,000 G.I.s crowded into the Army headquarters compound and G.I. orators shinnied up a lamppost to harangue them. They yelled for soldierly Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney to come out and face them if he was not too "scared." McNarney was in Berlin at a meeting of the Four-Power Control Council. The G.I.s showed what they thought of his absence by booing and hissing his name. McNarney, well aware of the Army's dependence on Congress, said...