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...Blood & Guts was in Dutch again. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., Military Governor of Bavaria, had made a fool of himself and had reflected on the whole U.S. Army by holding a press conference and pooh-poohing efforts to rid Germany of Nazis (TIME...
...also impugned the policies and orders of his Supreme Commander, Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who promptly ordered Patton to retract and sent his political adviser, Robert D. Murphy, to Bavaria to investigate Patton's administration...
...Patton called the press in for a retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...
Mouth v. Brain. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's chief of staff, forthwith called a press conference of his own. Growling that General Eisen hower would tolerate no insubordination, General Smith then spoke as one professional soldier practically never speaks of another: "[Patton's] mouth does not al ways carry out the functions of his brain. George acts on the theory that it is better to be damned than say nothing-that some publicity is better than none...
...hours after investigators had returned from Bavaria (a first glance had revealed that 20 Nazi bigshots were still in office), General Patton reported in person to Eisenhower at Frankfurt...