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...years that are left to me, I shall loathe every Jap. And with Halsey and Patton and all the rest, including the farmers of New Jersey, who have the courage to speak out and act, I shall want them scourged from this our blessed America, which is my native land, too. Only a dead Jap can be trusted...
...Senate Military Affairs Committee was still mad at blustery Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. for his unsoldierly outbursts in Sicily. Last week it dropped Georgie Patton from a list of 14 general officers slated for permanent promotions in the Regular Army...
...Georgie Patton's three stars are only temporary wartime rank. On the permanent list he is a colonel, could be dropped back to colonel at war's end, when the strength of the Regular Army will be pared down. To head off that kind of possibility for its best officers, the Army has already got permanent promotions for many: e.g., General Dwight David Eisenhower, formerly a permanent lieutenant colonel, was jumped to the permanent rank of major general nine months...
...Madeline and Eileen came late to school, saw some report cards unguarded in an office. They stole the cards to learn their marks. Margaret Patton saw the theft, reported it, and was overheard by Madeline and Eileen. Said Madeline: ''Let's kill somebody so we'll be sent away to a home; my parents don't treat me right...
...Quiet, usually placid Edward Kennedy, A.P.'s Mediterranean chief, had crackled that this was "a censorship scandal ten times more important than suppression of [the] Patton incident, and if accepted by us can only lead to permanent Allied political censorship in Europe...