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With General Patton's permission, they put one up at Casablanca-out of baling wire, appropriated French parts, and broken-up radio sets. They read news items from the newspapers, told funny stories, played their library of 17 recordings. Last March a couple of U.S. transmitters turned up, and the Mediterranean Army network was under way. Now it even has a station which travels with the Fifth Army. It is operated by & for G.I.s...
...deal of concrete information on the errors and accomplishments of the administration of the occupied village; 2) an unforgettable, sometimes sickening picture of the degradation of the Italians after 20 years of Mussolini; 3) a lopsided, bitter portrait of a loudmouthed, fire-eating, bullying U.S. general, who resembles General Patton; 4) a plot. The work of 29-year-old LIFE Editor John Hersey (Men on Bataan, Into the Valley), based on his war-reporting experiences in Sicily, it has an impact like the kick of one of the mules on the road to Adano...
...foot of the pole, Lieut. General George S. Patton, who had been doing the yelling, kept his peace...
...that the War Department had proclaimed its "vested interest" in news of its doings, would the Army proceed to suppress such items as the Patton case, the poor start of the Attu campaign, and try to make the U.S. public think that everything is hunky-dory...
Held up with Patton's were promotions of eleven other war-made lieutenant generals...