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Very clearly, Lieut. General George Patton was a minuscule figure beside the issue his slaps had momentarily raised-the people's confidence in the leadership of the people's Army...
Newspapermen began to reconsider whether they should go on complying, as they did in the Patton case, with a commander's strongly worded proposal to keep from the U.S. people facts that the people are entitled to know...
...first tendency of the people and the Congress (see p. 15) was to regard the Patton affair as a shocking but isolated incident in an officer's career...
...isolated incident quickly became two. Bellicose Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. had degraded another enlisted man. Private Charles Herman Kuhl had written home to Indiana: "General Patton slapped my face yesterday and kicked me in the pants and cussed me." Kuhl, like the unnamed artilleryman whose slapping precipitated the Patton case (TIME, Nov. 29), had also been hospitalized for psychoneurosis...
There were other stories of unsoldierly conduct by West Pointer Patton. On one occasion he had pounced on a group of anti-aircraft men who had just beaten off an enemy attack, with casualties. Those...