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...charges made by [Scripps-Howard Columnist] Ruark are not only totally unfair but are erroneous. In my opinion, it is unfair to anyone who contributes his life, time, energy and ability to the Army to be rewarded by such a "hit & run" attack...
...hour inspection of Leghorn, Italy, Columnist Robert C. Ruark had sniffed out some lively scandal, and his five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded...
According to Columnist Ruark, onetime Navy gunnery officer in the European Theater, Lee had not changed much with peace. While G.I.s listened, Columnist Ruark kept his whistle blowing for five days running. Some of his accusations: EURJ As Mediterranean Theater commander, General Lee maintained three swanky permanent quarters in Rome, Florence and Viareggio...
...Said Ruark: "I don't know whether General Lee or his gabbling flock of tame colonels write the rules, but as Emperor of the area he has to hold still for the rap. ... It may be an army that General Lee is running, but to me it looks more like a combination of junket, political shakedown, misuse of Governmentmaterial, maltreatment of subordinates and a happy hunting-ground for desk-bound brass which spent most of its war at home and is now trying to embalm its rank abroad...
Most permanent correspondents in Italy (many of them ex-servicemen themselves) would not go as far as Visitor Ruark (who spent 36 hours in Leghorn, eight days relaxing at Capri). But his tooting was loud enough to reach Ike Eisenhower, who promptly ordered the Army's Inspector General, Major General Ira T. Wyche, to take off for Leghorn immediately...