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...Worst of all, the Army finds that Nazi-educated boys, supposedly trained in soldierly virtues from childhood, often are unfit for soldiering. When they are put through the stiff tests for officers given by the Army's Psychological Laboratory (TIME, July 21), they are found impertinent, undisciplined, lazy, unreliable. Reason: the Nazi Party code had brought them up to be disrespectful of their parents and teachers...
...Army doctors are completely in the dark about the mental health of recruits. A large amount of mental disease cropped up in the A.E.F., prompted General Pershing to wire home: Stop sending over the mentally unfit. Even with thoroughgoing psychiatric examinations, 10% of the volunteers inducted in 1940, according to the Army's chief psychiatric adviser, Dr. Leonard Rowntree, showed signs of insanity after reaching camp...
Amid Laborite howls M.P. Hopkinson went on to call Labor Minister Ernest Bevin "an unskilled laborer,"* unfit to handle the complex problems of labor organization. Said Hopkinson: "The labor question has been grossly mishandled for the last twelve months. . . . The whole thing is chaos from top to bottom...
...Angeles, Edward Price Richards, 29, who registered for the draft last fall and was classified as 4-F (physically, mentally or morally unfit) petitioned the Superior Court to change his name to Barbara Ann Richards. Reason: he has given up his job, begun to stick around the house, stopped shaving six weeks ago (his beard had stopped growing) and felt he just had to change to women's clothes...
Eliminating unfit officers is only half of it. The Army must also find young and fit ones. To that end, a selection board has lately scanned a list of some 800 majors and lieutenant colonels, recommended the best of them for temporary promotions to colonelcies. Most of these promotions (like most of the head-chopping) will be made on the basis of actual performance in this summer's field maneuvers. These games are not war, but to many an officer now on test they are hell...