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Franklin Roosevelt invited Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. to share his jeep on a review of troops in the Middle East, and the U.S. press reported the gesture. Nevertheless, the Senate subcommittee which was considering Patton's promotion (from his present permanent rank of colonel to permanent major general) was unimpressed. Last week the subcommittee postponed action...
...Patton is off balance enough to strike a sick man, he is not fit to command troops. We would suggest examination by a civilian psychiatrist, followed by disciplinary action...
...This soldier was suffering from nerve shock. Is it too amazing to assume that General Patton, too, might have nerves? Nerves that are strained to the breaking point from the responsibility resting upon...
Lieut. General Patton slaps and abuses a private suffering from shock-he is "severely reprimanded" for doing...
...Armed Forces-when the real reason was that the suppressed facts did no credit to his organization. Recent example: the Defense Plant Corp. held up a Tulsa Tribune story on coal mining for five months (TIME, Dec. 13). More celebrated example was the holdup of the General Patton story on the appeal of the Army High Command in Africa. There were hundreds of other instances...