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...Navy's matériel chief, Rear Admiral C. H. Cotter, granted that such things had happened. Under Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall said isolated cases of wanton destruction were "unavoidable." The services made no secret, however, of their feeling that surplus property was a growing nuisance. Said Royall: "If anything, [the Army] is spending too much money and too many man-hours to protect property of doubtful value." And General MacArthur had already told Washington that if he could ship back surplus goods, he could demobilize men held overseas only to guard stockpiles...
...Your Letters section is filled these days with the buzz of servicemen condemning the brutally wanton way in which many G.I.s are conducting themselves abroad. People write to you and seriously nominate fellows like Senator Bilbo and Colonel McCormick as Man of the Year. And so it goes...
...also interested in science itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...Shame! Shame!" There was passionate talk of starving German children, of unnecessarily cruel treatment, of the "greatest catastrophe the human race ever experienced." Cried Labor's Michael Foot: "We are protesting against the wanton and deliberate creation of a new sore [in Europe]." Charged Independent Sir Arthur Salter: "If . . . millions during this winter freeze and starve, this will not have been the inevitable consequences of [war]." The implication was that Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia were deliberately creating chaos in Germany. One M.P. accused the U.S. of the same "lunatic policy...
...Violation of the laws and customs of war; i.e., maltreatment of prisoners and of civilians in occupied countries, murder of hostages, plundering, wanton destruction of cities or devastation not justified by military needs...