Word: unfitness
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...histories of wars are red with tales of unfit officers whose incompetence cost other men their lives, and their country, battles. Such tales there are bound to be after the next U.S. war, and many of them will be true. For, in the last analysis, war is the only sure test of an Army. This is a fact that every soldier knows, even if he does not speak...
...make the test rapidly effective, General Marshall wanted authority to rip away the red tape which hedges many an unqualified officer. By law, officers who are found unfit by reclassification ("B") boards may cling to a long and cumbersome appeal procedure before they are finally ousted. Congress last week was asked to cut this cackle, by giving final power to remove the unfit, without appeal or palaver, to a new board of five or more General Staff officers...
...Said Dr. Edward John Kempf of Wading River, L.I., author of a famed text on psychopathology: "We have a deteriorating social system. We need to come to a reorganization which is more severe." Hitler is to be "congratulated" on the way he set out to eliminate the unfit...
Preventing idiots and feeble-minded from breeding (although not necessarily by the German method of destroying them) is a principle which most U.S. psychiatrists accept. But few doctors would swallow the Nazi definition of "unfit" or "psychopath." In a 1938 issue of the official Militärarzt (Army Doctor), German physicians were warned against "the most dangerous . . . element, the left psychopathic wing . . . those who . . . promote incitement and rebellion . . . those who, not lacking in intelligence . . . gather about themselves the discontented"-a description which in Germany applies rather better to democrats than to radicals...
...British Government considers them unfit for national U.S. distribution is another British propaganda mystery. Acted for the most part by the ordinary, everyday citizens of England with the assistance of an occasional pro, they reveal without exaggeration or undue flag-waving a nation grimly going about the business of fighting for its life...