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...understood that President Hoover will be asked to accept the resignation of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, effective Oct. i, twelve years before he reaches the retirement age of 61. Thereafter General Butler will perform on the lecture platform...
Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's "Mussolini Speech" had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat...
Long accustomed to getting in and out of trouble on battlefield and lecture platform, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C. dodged out of danger last week, popped back to safety. In a letter to Secretary of the Navy Adams he deplored that his remarks before Philadelphia's Contemporary Club-in which he told a story of Prime Minister Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits...
That slender, long-nosed spitfire, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet-Eye") Butler, had made another speech. In Philadelphia he had told a club meeting this story: A friend of his recently roared through the Italian countryside with Mussolini at the wheel of the motorcar. A little girl ran across the road, was smacked to the ground, the life crushed out of her. When General Butler's friend protested at their not stopping, Mussolini said: "What is one life in the affairs of a State...
...people do not like to have to apologize. An atmosphere of "now he's going to get it" quickly surrounded General Butler. It was remembered that Smedley Darlington Butler, whose bravery as a soldier has won him two Congressional Medals of Honor and the Distinguished Service Medal, has always spoken as he fights, recklessly, ferociously. When he was Philadelphia's Director of Safety, charged with cleaning up speakeasies and vice, his robust language (sample: "I ought to pull his [the mayor's] nose") got him ousted after about a year. He went back to the Marines...