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...Yokohoma a mob booed War Secretary Patterson, who had picked this unlucky moment for a Pacific inspection trip, until a provost marshal told them: "You are insulting a man who was a soldier before you were born...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...
...Secretary Patterson ridiculed the charge, and the Navy charts (a "fancy brochure" . . . "diversionary effort"). On lower levels the shrill cries were re-echoed...
...Patterson, president of the United Air Lines, will speak at the graduation exercises of the Business School's Advance Management Program to be held tomorrow at 9:30 o'clock in the Baker Library...
...Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S. commitment to do something that would actually help...