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...first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary...
...China, where the Army decreed that correspondents would be "disaccredited" Oct. 15, newsmen discovered that they would consequently be unable to move from one city to another in U.S. planes and cars. Shanghai newsmen tried to cable Secretary of War Patterson: "We feel the provision grants Army officers too much authority to decide what the American people may read and what they may not read about activities of troops in China." An Army PRO refused to transmit the message. But since the officer had lost his censorship powers, Bob Patterson could read the message in the newspapers, which received...
...board also found that Rutgers-educated Colonel Wyman had lied to his superiors about his knowledge of Friend Rohl's German citizenship, which made Rohl ineligible to handle secret Army contracts. Patterson did not disagree...
...Patterson did not mention the rest of Ted Wyman's gaudy career. For his "meritorious and distinguished service in Hawaii," he got the D.S.M. Then he was assigned to the ill-fated Canol Project and the Alcan Highway. At the request of the Canadian Government he was removed. But he stayed on the job in Canada long enough to be officially reprimanded for "failure to enforce safety regulations" after one of his contractors' trucks exploded, killing eleven men and destroying a third of the town of Dawson Creek...
Later, while in Europe in charge of the Normandy port of Cherbourg, Colonel Wyman received what the War Secretary described as "... a well-deserved Legion of Merit." Said Patterson sadly: except for the Army board's investigation and report, "Colonel Wyman would have received at least one promotion," to Brigadier General...