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...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
Both Warden and Prewitt have love affairs in the course of the book, Prewitt with a respectable where and Warden with the wife of his captain. With some cynicism but convincing logie, Jones has them both flee their women when the relationships get too much like marriage...
...novel is weakest in its first two chapters and last section, in which Jones tries to define clearly the relationship of his protagonists to the Army. He never succeeds in explaining convinoingly just why Prewitt and Wardes loved the Army as much as we are told they did. At the end they both make romantic, almost sentimental, gutters of devotion that merely mask Jones' failure...
Lawyer Baker: "The right to gather news is a property right. The publication of news, publicity of trials, is among the great safeguards of liberty in a free country. If what Judge Prewitt has done in this case can be done, then it is within his discretion to exclude any representatives of any newspaper, and all representatives of all newspapers, and hold a star chamber session from which the observing eye of public .opinion has been withdrawn." The offending editorial, Lawyer Baker thought, was "exceedingly temperate." Lawyer Allan Prewitt: "Are you going to let that paper stay across the border...
...Judge Prewitt (smiling broadly): "Well, the boys have won out over New- ton Baker...