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GRENADINE ETCHING (270 pp.)-Robert C. Ruark-Doubleday...
Lieut. General John C. H. Lee had had enough. Last week, just a month after Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark called him a martinet who made life miserable for G.I.s in his Mediterranean Theater command (TIME, Aug. 25), frosty-eyed "Courthouse" Lee announced his retirement from the U.S. Army...
While the Army's Inspector General, Major General Ira T. Wyche, carrying a bulging notebook, hustled home to report to Chief of Staff Eisenhower on the results of his own investigation into Mediterranean morale, General Lee held an explanatory press conference in Rome. Ruark's charges, he said, had nothing to do with his retirement (which becomes effective as soon as all U.S. troops are evacuated from Italy). In fact, he had asked for retirement as far back as February...
...Ruark will check the record, he will find that the late General Patton and several other tactical commanders put in writing their appreciation of Lee and his organization...
...almost always tell a man by the way he treats the little fellow. It's my guess that the man who treated us as I have described is not the man pictured by Reporter Ruark...