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...Patton's Prayer...
...General Patton had the effrontery to say to the Almighty (who has handed down the commandment "Thou shalt not kill") give me good weather "so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace" [TIME, Jan. 10], he at least should not have had the vanity and bad taste to ... write it down so somebody else could publish it later...
...Surely Dean Anderberg, Swedish army chaplain, cannot believe that General Patton was praying for himself . . . His prayer was said for the preservation of freedom...
...should never have classified the Patton article as Religion. It is pure, unadulterated blasphemy...
...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...