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Mothers' Sons. What was the matter with them? General Cooke hazards no guess; but Psychiatrist Edward A. Strecker, an expert who helped in the medical phase of General Marshall's inquiry, does. In most cases, says he, it was Mother. In a companion book to General Cooke's (Their Mothers' Sons; Lippincott; $2.75), Dr. Strecker argues that "smother love" was the root of the psychoneurotics' trouble...
...Strecker considers it significant that when Bing Crosby toured the South Pacific, the song which troops demanded most often was Brahms's Lullaby. Plaintive, demanding letters from mothers to their sons in the service, he thinks, did much to undermine the boys' morale...
...Momism," of both the clinging and domineering varieties, is a widespread, "hereditary" U.S. disease, says Dr. Strecker, for which the nation is paying in general immaturity. "Instead of censuring mom for her shortcomings, we encourage her with misplaced adoration...
...Other members: Major General Norman Kirk, the Army's Surgeon General, Dr. Alan C. Woods of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Frank H. Lahey of Boston's Lahey Clinic, Dr. Edward A. Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Brigadier G. B. Chisholm, brilliant head of the Canadian Army's medical service, is the only psychiatrist to hold such a job. (Philadelphia's famed Dr. Edward Strecker thinks all Army medical services should be headed by psychiatrists.) Brigadier Chisholm called soldiers' mental breakdowns "a disability of the English-speaking peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier...