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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.
The 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. . . .
Only the day before, Beaverbrook had got some imperial yearnings off his own chest. For the U.S. Scripps-Howard papers he wrote a pungent evaluation of Britain's status. "The basic cause of our being in the present condition," he said, ". .. is the [U.S.] loan and the conditions under...
At Murray Bay, Quebec, where he is vacationing, Ohio's solemn Bob Taft got ready for his test swing through the Far West in mid-September, a serious undertaking in which Scripps-Howard's H. M. Talburt saw some humorous overtones.
In his 36-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...