Word: pattonisms
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General George S. Patton Jr. had kept mum for quite a while. It was unlike him. Last week, in Bavaria, where he is U.S. military governor, he broke the irksome silence, brandished his riding crop and informed the press: "Well, I'll tell you. This Nazi thing. It's just like a Democratic-Republican election fight...
...fact that General Dwight D. Eisenhower had just instituted an investigation of Bavaria's Nazified German bureaucracy did not seem to cut much ice with Georgie Patton. In his opinion, too much fuss was being made about denazification. Said Patton: "I'm not trying to be King of Bavaria...
...Patton's ideas on how to run Germany were shared by many of his subordinate officers. The ideas: 1) restore normal conditions to prevent anarchy; 2) get German industry back into shape so that the U.S. taxpayer will not have to foot the bill; 3) show the Germans "what grand fellows...
...Said Patton in his best grand-fellow manner: "To get things going, we've got to compromise with the devil a little...
...hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton's men kept running off the edge of all available maps (and adds that he will be glad to get back to the Library of Congress, where maps have some permanence...