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...supposed to stick around and clean up the peace. The people at home had not learned it either: they were in as much of a hurry as the G.I.s to get them home-back from that unpleasant outer world that neither understood nor appreciated what grand fellows (in George Patton's phrase) Americans were...
Bill Mauldin, ex-G.I. cartoonist who once tangled with General George S. Patton Jr. over brass-hat censorship (TIME, March 26), was the man 29 G.I.s in Italy wanted in Congress. In a letter to Stars & Stripes they nominated him as "the only person capable of opposing" General Patton, who they heard might...
...Last month Patton denied any political am bitions...
Other factors helped. Since the dismissal of General George S. Patton in Bavaria, U.S. authorities had greatly speeded up denazification. They had also moved to increase German participation in German rule, a step which the Russians considered intelligent. Soon all local and county government would be in German hands, under strict U.S. supervision. The Russians were still way ahead in the revival of German political life, but the Americans were catching...
This collection of innuendoes and untruths was hardly on the streets before mischief-mongering O'Donnell found himself caught, for once. The soldier Patton had slapped, Charles H. Kuhl, was not Jewish but of German descent. All of the Jewish leaders except Justice Frankfurter (who follows the court custom of ignoring press comment) issued denials...