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w f 'f TyT " '"' j '
1-ldJ. tnoj hat!ara
Quiet: of. Turfy, Night
7l2i tona ISssions
Jtfo Favor Sways f; No tear Shall Awe
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From First Statesman, March 23, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
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Tha Associated Press Is exclusively to titled to the use far publication ef CL
newt dispatches credited to It or no otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Single Department for War? . x
i' Senator Truman has an article fa Collier
calling tor the union of the war and navy de
partments. President Roosevelt says there,J is
' ' general agreement" that after the war the two
- departments should be merged under a unified
command. We had'understood there was rather
wide discussion of the subject,; but not that there
I was "general agreement' in favor of the merger.
The proposal is one that sounds plausible. We .
"have had instances of failure pf coordination by
the two branches of the service; and in Wash
ington claims have been made that there would
be great economieaTif the departments were
joined and unified purchasing carried out.
But study will show that jmerging the two
departments is not a guarantee of unity. For .
some years we have had pressures f or a sep
arate air force, so there are arguments for di
vision as well as unification of war services. The
navy fears that in the event of a consolidation it
would suffer and perhaps the army feels the
same way, especially if an admiral was at the
top. The air force might come in with claims
that it was being discriminated against both by
the navy and the infantry division of the army.
Even with a single department headed by a
civilian you would have immediately a division
of, the department into army and navy bureaus
with separate chains of command. The rivalries
would continue, and they would be no less
1 fierce. In the event of war it still would be ne
cessary to get the separate services to coordinate
their efforts. !
As far as congress is concerned such a merger
would force the merger of the separate commit
tees on naval and military affairs. But no one
N member could absorb all the information ne
cessary to pass on legislation for all branches of
the service. So again ;. the general committee
' would have to be sub-divided.
There is also the matter of tradition of each
- fighting service. Both army and navy have an
esprit de corps which is worth something. To
roll both together might destroy something of
.. that invaluable psychological element which is
: indispensable for a good fighting outfit.
In Washington in June the writer heard a ra
: dio fonun discussion of this topic, in which our
Congressman Mott took; part: From the
own
V debate we came to the conclusion that substan
tial opposition will develop if; a merger bill is
brought up. ; ... " !
.Victory in France : i I ; l', .
" Seldom in modern military history has' any
army suffered as overwhelming and sudden a
defeat as the German seventh army in northwest
France. To this is added a; arge part Of the
13th army which had been moved south of tha
Seine to aid the seventh in making an escape.
' All now are caught in the merciless whipping of
allied planes and pounding of allied armor. So
confused is the rout that the flight is now re
ported to be to the Rhine and not toward any
intermediate line such as. the, Seine or tha
Marne. If this proves true then the battle Of
France will quickly come to anjend with th lib
eration of France and the Low. Countries. -
The carnage was evidently! so terribly that'
soldiers and war correspondents turned' from
the , revolting sight as the helpless - nazl col
umns were riddled and as clumps of enemy for
mations were caught in pocket of artillery fire.
While the noose was not drawn tight enough
between Falaise and ArgenUujHto capture the
full remainder of the seventh 4rmy, those who
escaped merely rushed ';. into! fa wider loop
thrown by the allies. It is dea-that Rallied in
fantrymen and airmen responded to General
Eisenhower's order of the day nd grasped the
'fleeting but definite ! opportuiily for a inajor
allied victory-.' It is clear too Ahat his forecast
was accurate and that the realization of . this
crushing victory "will mean notable progress
toward the final downfall of oir enemy." , "
Hitler himself may well meditate on the cap
tion of the sundial: "It is later than you think.
Crass Fires
From various parts of the country come re-
' ports of grass fires. The casual reader is inclined
to scan this news without appreciating its real
v significance. While our grass fires are nothing
; like the Indians set in the open glades of this
- valley to keep down forest growth and insure
pasture for horses and deer, and nothing like the
i old prairie fires of the plains states, these local
; fires are not without real damage. They destroy
pasturage, at least for. the rest of the season;
i they may reach grain fields and destroy the
crops; they may ignite farm buildings and wipe
. them out ; ' ; '.-; j - ' " -
Farmers are giving more attention to the
' fighting of fires. Suburban communities and
rural districts are forming fire- districts, under
state law, which can levy taxes and purchase
i fire-fighting equipment. In other cases individ
i ual farmers or groups of neighbors buy light
equipment of tank and hose which is very use
ful in putting out grass and other fires. This
equipment is not now available, bufwhen the
war is over, farmers will do well to equip them
selves so they can fight fires in fields and in
buildings more successfully, j
Editorial Comment
MEASURING WORTH OF CITIES
AH over the United States there is a demand
tha t in the post-war the aim: of cities must be
NOT just "bigger and better" but definitely BET
TER even where the city happens to be getting
bigger as is the case of Eugene. :
- In the past, two factors transportation and mar
kets have dominated the placement of industry.
There are many indications that' in the future,
LIVING CONDITIONS will be regarded 'as quite
as important by the hardboiled gentlemen who di
rect industry. - . , i . :. . . .
Why? Because the workman who must live in a
crowded slum is likely to be both inefficient and "a
trouble maker" from the employer's narrow point of
view. From the community's broader viewpoint, the
alum impairs citizenship. I "
. Recently , a distinguished scholar, Edward L.
Thorndyke attempted a method of measurement for
cities and the results are published in a little book,
"Your City." He sets up 10 items, by which (upon
application of certain - mathematical formulae ;
worked out with the U. S. Census) it is possible to
determine whether your city Is above or below par
in "good living":
1. Infant mortality rates. .
2. Expenditures for maintenance of parks,
playgrounds and recreation facilities.
3. Estimated value of schools, libraries, mu
seums, parks' and recreational facilities. '
4. Value of public property used for public
service, offset by NET DEBT.
' 9. Expenditures for operation and mainten
ance of schools. I
. 8. Proportion of high school graduates to
population for the given year.
7. Public library circulation in relation to
population. - !
8. Proportion of; persons 19 (to 18 still in
school. i
9. Proportion of telephones to population. -
10. Proportion of power use.
Soon as we canget tho necessary base figures
and do the required arithmetic we will tell you .
how Eugene stacks up. By the Thorndyke measure
ment very few of America's "great cities" get even ;.
a passing mark. Los Angelesi San Francisco, Port- ;
land, Oakland do pretty well, but the high marks
go to smaller communities .such as Springfield,
Mass.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Schnectady, N.Y.; and
suburban Evans ton, IU.; Newton, Mass.; Glendale,
Calif.; and a few of the "swell burgs" like.Pasadena
are tops. Most of our Southern cities are near the r
bottom of the hesp, largely on account, of their ,
Unsolved Negro problems. ' j .
Eugene Jlesister-Cuard.
Stiffening in the East 1 1 1 i .
For some weeks the Russians have made no
such progress as they did during the latter part
rt Tuna nnri thrnncrh mocf rf Jllfv Tn thpir Slim
W ' V. .... WM.. .w" . w ' . l
mer offensive they swept the efiemy out of the (Distribution
remainder of Russian territory and made some
penetration of the Baltic states-and of Poland.
But they have been stopped before Warsaw and
still stand at the borders of East Prussia. Some
of the hesitation may be due toi organization of
armies and communications for fresh attack, but
there is reason to believe; that German resist
ance has stiffened. j i fi' t J
i At Warsaw there was a German attack in
j force and in one sector of thefront the(Rus4
isians admitted yielding a town to the enemy;
There have been varying reports of ! the dis-
tances of Russians from WarsavK and front East
Prussia, with little indication of recent progress
except toward the latter. t s i )i j
It may be anticipated that the Germans will
fight with greater fury to defend) their :own soil;
and the same rule applies in the:, west as In the
east. Hence the great importance of destroying
the German armies in the field rather J than
merely forcing them to retreat: and yield ter-
CentupOr' j ' I . ! I IP i
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s Behind the News
Bvl PAUL MALLON !
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tion.
ritory.
i
Dnierpreting
The War -Wgivo
. By KTHKE L. SIMPSON !
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST
L The war that Hitler made has come to German
soil in the east by land as well as air this crucial - .
August weekend and it was moving swiftly toward
a climax in the west - i - M j
Faced with possibilities of disaster, nazi home
front cheer leaders preached the kltrange doctrine
of a retreat to victory, seeking to lull German public,
opinion against ever mounting military -reverses.
Vague promises of new armies and new i i weapons
rolled off the lips of nazi spokesmen. Distorted ver-.
sions of battles stills-raging ; in towns and cities 1
which for days have been held byfthe Russians or.
allies filled the German air. No mention was made
of the internal revolt in France against the German
conquerors that is ripping French soil loose; from j
nazi control even before allied liberation armies '
reach the scene. ; 't 1-
To German troops reeling backward in East
Prussia under Russian blows, to shattered remnants
of the once powerful nazl seventh larmy in north- I
western France, to survivors" of stunned German
garrisons in southern France, and, most of all per- I
haps, to "the men of Vichy and their i satellite f
WASHINGTON I Aufj ' 20
Traveling Mr. Roosevelt ! and his
war publicist Elnter Davis, came
back from - the
PB-elfU front
with promising
bui indefinite
a ,a'd at most
wainoing reports
abut . the time
necessary to'
crush Japan.
The Common .
notion that "it
few, months" afUf Germany is
being conjesp0ndngly 1 1 altered
here at least by tficial author
ities. The new notion is that ah
other newljr-mouhted campaign
next spring will be reqxiired and
the end miy not comeunta 1
year from now. they say now.
This deepening attitude is due
to f new ccjnceptiop of the mili
tary situation. j ; j! - jj ' .
Next logical steps for us in the
Pacific are the Philippines, For
mosa and the southern string of
islands off: the Jap mainland
(Ryukyu; islands, and even Ky
ushu, southernmost large Jap
island contiguous to the home
land group r j
No secret can bf tnade of Gen
eral I MacArthurY intention to
move promptly upon the Phil
iptpnes. He promised it. The pre
sident, aftez calling jhim to Hono
lulu, confin ned the! promise.
We cannot go ahwhere in the
Pacific without jalr Coverage.
Dangers pf landing and; sustain
ing troops i ubjectj to Jap air at
tack 'are too great to bij consid-'
eredj-vi f:.. f .
From this basi Jconsideratim
has frown the stregy 'pf push-'
ingj our land basei for air power :
steadily forward. This progress !
hai reached the Guam-Saipaa,
frontier, which :Mf, IDavis prom- r controls.
lish beachheads on the South
. China coast jand open a sea route
to Chungking. Our people may be
reluctant to! do this without air
bases on Formosa and in the
Philippines to cover that opera-
CRT
WDQuQCE
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'WITH THE AEF IN ' THE ;
MEDITERRANEAN "THEATER, .
Aug.. 12.-(Deliyed)-(-Som e-
time th : night's Quiet around '
this fighter headquarters is bro-
ken by ax Thunderbolt taking off
in the moonlight ' "r
Aad the men around the map
and strategy boards look at one
another and say: - , ?. t"
, "Where's Bendy?" ." '
i The chances art pretty" good
that MaJ. ; Wuliam B. Benedict, :
28, huge, redheaded pilot! from
' San Quentin, CaL; is bound on :'
some lone, ' self-assigned mission. -
They've iiailed him to bead
Quarters temporarily and :tech
nicaHy he's not supposed to ftj, '-'
but after nearly 200 RAF, and'
AAF missions, and after shooting
down six enemy planes and hav-
ring four shot out from under -;
him, he can'Jt sit still. ' ;
He picks the tough ones, skip
bombing railroad, tunnels to seal
off enemy guns inside, going
through the hottest flak to knock
out some enemy position, doing
personal reconnaissance. When
his pilots fly cover for the bomb-
ers, he often files solitary top ;
cover for them, just to see what
happens . and : whether the boys -are
on the balL r ' . . 1 ..'
i "If we didn't watch him he'd
fly a couple j of missions every
day," the j commanding officer
said. - !
1 In June 1940, when he had only
two years 'of college, the army
air corps looked somewhat ask
ance at Benny's educational qua
lifications, so he went up to Can
ada, to visit his aunt and drop
ped into a! RCAF recruiting of
fice "just to see what their qua
lifications called for." ' -
! j ' I-.-,
tive granite in storied turrets to
the needle of the central spire is
to Adams the symbol of unity,
"an assertion of God and Man in
a , bolder, stronger, closer union
than ever wai expressed by any
other art.; I . .'
I
But what M needed to annihil
ate Jap fighting power in China,
is hot necessarily our armies, but
weapons and food for the limit
less number pf Chinese who want
to do the job. r
The source of Jap. military
power, however, is not in their
.farflung armies but in the group
of large islands known as the
Jap malrdaxjd. If Japan proper
could beconquered, the arrniee in
China ; andf elsewhere roust fall r
lot lack of supplies, weapons,'
even food, as the whole Jap dis
tribution system would be de
stroyed, i - ;-.-.?;.v-j
An we have 100 aircraft car
riers plus th overwhelming Pa
cific seapower we know we con
trol, plus whatever will be re
leased from Europe as Germany
falls, why not create an armada
sufficiently powerful to blast
straight into Tokyo, carrying our
auf coverage with us? It would
save a lot of jchasing around and
hekvy fighting for preliminary
positions. . j
, Jap airpower is still a little
better than the German, but not
much. They! have production
while nazi factories , practically
have been extinguished by our
air bombardment Also, a consid
erable army j remains . on home
JapsoiL : .-7-.fv
The air force would have to
be; met and: defeated first, then
the land i6rce, but the task is hot'
beyond assured, daring planning. '
Incidentally, We have an admiral
in icharge of Pacific ODerations.
the only front at which the navy
? Continued tram Page
brought the' Norsemen down
from Norway and Denmark to
overrun ' England, ravish j the
coasts of France, and found set
tlements from Normandy to Sici
ly and North Africarhad been
tamed. A century of; Christian
teaching gave it a new sense of
direction, and the abbey church
with Its attendant dormitory and
refectory and cloister
hair where in 1469
constituted the; Order- of f
MichaeL marks its trlimaxU
and "great.
Louis XI
St.
Of
this and of the cathedral of Mon-
' reale built by Normans settled in - may, if you like, figure in it a
mathematical formula of infinity
the broken arch, our finite idea
of space; the spire, pointing, with
its converging lines, to unity be
yond space; the sleepless, restless
thrust of the vaults, telling the
unsatisfied, incomplete, over-
' strained effort of man to rival
the energy,; intelligence and pur
pose of God." 1 -
ises will lead now to the next '
steps ("not long were his words,
but every good; democratic poli-
French collaborationists these riazl outgivings must L tied here hopes MacArthur will I
have brought sardonic laughter. They know, the fate
awaiting them with a German flight from; France.
And it was for that nazi broadcasters were pre
paring the German people. It was already in pro
gress west of the Seine as they spoke. It; was no
less impending in the south as the allied; Riviera
beachhead expanded against stul ineagre J opposi
tion, and as French . underground armies! leaped
from cover to pounce upon isolated; enemy detach
ments. -.;::' -- -Pf i; S ,-. . ;
The full scope and effect Sof Hat French up
rising in response to the long 'delayed call to
arms is yet to be assessed. Only snap-shot glimpses
of its operation are yet revealed. 'However, it has
an obvious definite relationship ' to allied grand
strategy. It is a potential factor of supreme import
ance in hastening a German retreat into the old
battle grounds of world war one in northeastern
,. France. -. - ,2j v t
American columns hammering up the Loire above
Orleans on the right flank of Eisenhower's jbattle
line and the nearest prongs of Patch's Mediterran
ean invasion army curling swiftly about Toulon are
still nearly 400 miles apart In between themj how
ever, ; all through the mountains, ' that flank the
t Rhone valley from the Swiss frontie to the sea,
" French patriots are busy mopping up German con
trol centers.-' , ' ' ; l . .
Traced on the map these French! uprisings tend
toward linking up allied operation theatres in the i
north and south. They seem most effective and
powerful in the region east of Ly ttti in the upper
Rhone valley and virtually midway between the I
two nearest approaching allied wing. That they are I
forcing diversion of German trooj? and also ex-
- posing -German communications to ground sabotage
as well as allied air harrying is unquestionable.
The gathering momentum of the French internal ;'
: uprising bids fair to help turn the German occupa -tion
in most of France into a Getrian entrapment 5
before enemy garrison forces' ill equipped for fast -movement
can effect their escape.' . -j. ( !
With the final allied clean-up 'it the seventh;
a army west of the Seine and it lannot be long
delayed Eisenhower will be in a position to throw ,
tremendous power by land and air: southeastward
through or around Paris to reach, de upper Rhone .
and effect a junction with Patch's Franco-American!
; : troops in the south. 1 1 - ? I - - M
election day). -jr r
The bulk of the Jap armies are '
strewn over thej thousands of j'
miles of Asia fratn Mahchukuo "',
toi Burma, (hoonget India, from
which they now have been :
chased);j j :Ar j l
Conceivably, we could : estab-
Sicily, Adams wrote:
"No art either Greek of By
zantine, Italian or Arab has ev
er created two religious types so
beautiful, so serious, so impres
sive, and yet so different, as
Mont-Saint-Michel watching ov
er its northern ocean, land Mon
reale, looking down over its for
ests of orange and lemon, on1 Pa
lermo and the Sicilian! seasff
The Mont rising from the ina-
T. : 1 r n
they may try to organize a win
ter campaign westward to go into
Chungking by the back door but
this seems an undertaking! be
yond their ability. ; f v
The; monsoon has been on in
Burma since mid-May, They; said
we could never fight during" the
rains. But General Stflwell first
showed them how and Mountbat
ten planed similarly, so we have
accomplished limited, lyet unbe-
!
lievable successes.
The rains will be over in three
or four weeks. Then jthere ! will
be more action. .
! Mont-Saint-Michel and Char
tres have been spared the fate of
Monte Cassino. Are they only
relics of medieval art and re
ligion? Adams, skeptic that he
was, left the Virgin at Chartres
"looking down from a deserted
heaven, into an' empty church, on
a dead faith." (But in the midst
of war when Citadels are de
stroyed in avalanches of metal
and human 'flesh is seared and
broken, do not these spires point
ing heavenward carry a message
of hope, which is the core of
faith, without j which warfare
would seem toi be the ultimate
and inevitable catastrophe? J
If we could: do it. at Saipan. we
can do it Inlthe Jap center at
home or on' a China beachhead.
In case we head straight in, the
war should not require another
year. . I? ; r
As for the land fighting in Chi
na 1 and Burma, we are only
marking time, as far as grand
strategy goes; Nothing pleasant
can; be reported about the Jap
successes on the Yellow river
(Hengyang). Talk survives that
The Literary
Guidepost
! fTHE ydUNG IDEA" By Mossier
! I j ' j
t j" ij . 'j,"Maj 1 eut-mr
1 ! By JOHN SEL8T
"FINAL SCORE.- by Warren
Beck (Knopf; LN)j
Warren IBeck's "Firial Score"
is pretty wonderfuL jit is true
that he gets himself 'needlessly
involved in one of those fictional
devices so popular with novelists,
but even that cannot do too much
harm. ' .The device is; that ;Mr.
Becki insists on telling his story
in the form of a conversation be
tween two men, one a featured
player in v the drama itself, and
the Other an outsider. ( This does
not obscure the story too much;
it does, however, have-the effect
of straining it through a gauze
at times, and it makes for oblique
rather than straight narration.
But although these wings , are
true, it is also true they do 'not
dim Mr. Beck's little aegory He
has written a wholly accurate
and often brilliant study of. a
man who made a greatjsuccess on
a fluke, and never could escape
the pattern of the success. if In
"Final Score," Bill Hutten was
football player at iMonroe,"
which appears to be; another
name for Madison, Jis. He had
no brains, he was sullen, egotis
tical,' deadpan, resentful of peo
ple with more polish jand man
ners,; a boor. It happened that
Bill was lucky in making a won
derful run, one day, and that the
coach saw a chance to 'build up a
star by providing interference.
' Bill became a living legend, acid
the crystallization of the mind of
the "South Side" of Monroe. This
was a heavy and dull mind, the
material from which fascists are
made. j
Mr. Beck makes it; clear that
his pattern would have worked
just as well if Bill had, for ex
ample,' made si v spectacular air
plane flight, of -stumbled along
Pennsylvania avenue just in time
to save the President from assas
sination, or something else spec
tacular.'The only requirement is
that Bill be stupid; in Mr. Beck's
book, he is first fiven money by
a group of men who capitalize his
reputation and then his preju
dices are played upon until he
becomes the spearhead of a po
litical movement whose purposes
are sinister, to say the least.
! This pattern has worked . in
Europe, and it has been tried in
this country. . Mr. Beck closes his
novel with a suicide, which he
may intend as a prophecy and a
warning to little Hitlers.
I. i i i ' i . ;
' Mont-Samt-Michel is dedicat
ed to Saint Michael, the archan
gel militant, but the cathedral of
Chartres belongs to the .Virgin
Mary. For her glory, architects
and artists; and workers labored
to conceive and buQd this cathe
dral which still stands as monu
ment, to their vision and skill.
Quoting Adams again:. . j : "
i "Like, all great churches, that
are not mere storehouses of the
ology, Chartres expressed, be
sides whatever else it meant, an
emotion, toe deepest "man ever
flt-the struggle' of his own lit
tleness to grasp the Infinites You
They ; shoved blanks under his
huge freckled hand and Benny
began' siriging. He hasn't been
back to1 San Quentin.
. la August,; 1941, he went to
England, " waa adopted, by the
RAF and flew at dozen combat
missions, Then they sent him to
Cairo just as Rommel was start
ing kia Wg drive, and Benny
spent the next year mostly help
ing cover a'retreat, ;,Y -
In Deceniber, 1942, he trans
ferred to the US air force with
visions of going home for more
training; but iwhen he walked
into AAF headquarters in Cairo
and laid his log book on the desk
they took jone look at it and
said: "You're ; just the guy we
need. There's a P-40 waiting fori
you. You're a second lieuten
ant Here's your orders, here's
your money-for uniforms, good
bye and goodluck. ' Just like
thaL".:-;-. ::,;,f ;K...;v.- l;1--i
Benny, had never seen a P-40.
So he went out to the airport and
asked the crew; chief to give him
a cockpit check. Hurricanes and
Spitfires, had been simple just,
turn a couple of switches and
take off, .The'. P-40 had nine
separate gadgets you had to tin
ker with first! But JBenny solved
them the first time and flew to
Tunisia. In six days from com
bat with the RAF; he was back
in combat with the AAF.
Since then he's flown more than
100 additional 1 missions. When
stuck on the ground he storms
and swears' at thefsoft life" he
says the boy lead. He says
"They're! all sto on-fed, good
guys, and have got what it takes,
but not trained right Then he
beats on jthe table, roaring about
how they should be trained.
Benn, you're I nuts," some
ranking officer, will tell him
good-natiu-edly.! "You can't run
an air force that way." r
Then, in an aside not intended
for Benny's ears, the officer us
ually will ( add: But what I
would give for a I squadron of
guys just like! him.f
'Benny I doesn't' want to go
home I now j until the European
war is oyer. -After that:
"HI go home and stay there.
None of this Pacific war for me,
I get malaria too easy. Those
guys seem to be handling the sit
uation all right by- themselves."
. Then" a! speculative look comes
into his eyes; III
"But that's quite a little war
they've got; out there in the Pa
cific, at that isn't it?"
Then you know he chances are
that on some- tolght the stillness
over, some Pacific atoll .will be
shattered
the men
by a Thunderbolt and
around the maps will
look up an ask "Where's Benny?"
War
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nsoner
I f i i O
L i if
Investia
"Is
ated
WASHINGTON Aug. lM)-
Report of 'ccddling' of axis war .
prisoners and "unwOrthy" treat
ment of wounded United States
service mer are being investigated
by the house military committee,
Chairman May (D-Ky.) disclosed
today. j j .;
Committee! investigators, 'May
told reporters, have been sent to
prison camps in Kentucky and
Pennsylvania to inquire into com
plaints "that axis . prisoners of
war are being coddled and treated
like- heroes. jl : j- i,
" "We have 'received many com
plaints," thf Kentuckian said,
"and according to reports some of
these prisoners! are being treated
like guests,! being transported to
moyies and' held up as great he
roes. It is one thing to treat them
decently, biitf it is something else
to give them a lot of privileges
just. because Jthey happened to be
captured while trying to .kill a
lot of our boysJ J j
May alsoj said the! committee's
criticism ... of conditions at the
nearby Boiling; field (station hospital-was
"just the beginning of
an : investigation of conditions in
all these army hospitals."
Boiling field's hospital was de
scribed as ;"a firetrap" and its
discontinuance was recommended
after an investigation headed by
Representative Fen ton . (R-Pa.),
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