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...most Southern politicos were in no such sweetly reasonable, give-&-take mood. Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones said calmly: "We've always handled that question-and always will." Texas' Representative Nat Patton remarked evenly: "Texas will find some way to work out a Democratic primary for white folks...
...Society of Newspaper Editors, able managing editor of the Kansas City Star, had written a letter to lean, leathery Major General Alexander Day Surles, head of Army Public Relations. Roberts asked to know more about Army censorship practice. In reply, General Surles retold three long-suppressed stories: 1) the Patton soldier-slapping (TIME., Nov. 29) ; 2) the Bari disaster (TIME, Dec. 27) ; 3) the loss of 23 U.S. transport planes and 410 men to Allied guns at Gela (TIME, March 27). Wrote General Surles...
...General [Patton] was to be used in a cover plan following his operations in Sicily. . . . The theater commander was extremely desirous that his reputation should not be impaired. . . . The story from the United States that he was in disgrace and was going to be relieved struck like a bombshell in the theater . . . where, by agreement with the correspondents . . . the story was to be withheld until Patton's operations were accomplished...
...Last week Columnist Pearson printed a list of his stories which had been denied, "but turned out true." Among them: his beats on the General Patton soldier-slapping (TIME, Dec. 6), the Navy's Elk Hills oil deal (TIME, July 5). † He also has felt Presidential censure, on his "moronic little king" broadcast...
Next night the Sicilian campaign commander, Lieut. General George S. Patton, called for reinforcing troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to land within his own lines. Up went 170 planes, each bearing 18 paratroopers. They swung low over the water near Gela...