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ing up on the Italian cam 3 quarters talk centered upon o The factual details remained broken the story. Yet everyone Patton had slapped a soldier at 93d Evacuation Hospital. Even his staunchest admirers declined to justify the incident. Enemies pointed out that slapping a soldier is a. court-martial offense for any officer, let alone a general, let alone a general as famous at Gen. Patton. His friends agreed, but argued that “Blood and Guts” undoubtedly was the most valuable fighting general in America’s European armies; would it serve the war effort to junk him, just to satisfy regulations and one soldier's pride? undreds of soldiers’ Hives—not just their pride and military rights—were frequently sacrificed for the bigger goal,

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wining of the war. Shouldn't this same principle apply here? # - ~ PATTON'S ENEMIES counterattacked this argument by charging his retention would cause an angry storm of protest so overwhelming it might destroy public faith in the Army. Besides, they added, there weren't enough high-ranking officers in the area to try a lieutenant general; a trip home and the resultant stench of court-martial, Gen. Patton's friends contended, might very well result in an international scandal damaging to the Allies and their war, After Drew Pearson cracked

over into the American press; in our o sector they were fought from headquarters to squad level. Gen. Eisenhower, probably Gen. Patton's best friend and yet saddled with

By Kay Summersby’ IT WAS THE middle of August and Dick’s old Third Division was in Messina. The Sicilian show was over. The curtain was go-

But, in the fleld and in all headPatton, foggy; correspondents still hadn't in the Mediterranean knew Gen.

chief was well into his great warehouse of risque stories. As usual, he exiled me for the moment by remarking, “How about mixing me a highball, Kay?” § At lunch he suddenly turned to me and asked, “Why don't you get Ike to bring you over to Sicily on one of his trips?” I murmured that Gen. Eisenhower was a whirlwind of business whenever he visited Sicily; also, a woman would be very out of place with a general inspecting troops. “Nonsense,” Patton replied. “You should know American soldiers well enough by now to know you'd be damnéd good for morale!” He turned to the general. “Ike, it’s only a hop, skip and a

»” » » THE NEXT day Ruth Briggs and I piled into a C-47 and traveled to Sicily for a command luncheon with Gen. Patton. He provided a nice touch by having his chief of staff, Hobart (Hap) Gay, at the airfield to meet our plane; after almost a year of greeting V-I-P’s, I enjoyed being welcomed by a general. The, drive to headquarters re-

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the responsibility for correction, wrote to his Seventh Army commander the most severe reprimand he ever had to compose in Europe. He also ordered a direct apology to all the men involved, as well as to the assembled officers of their regiment. (Funny enough, none of the letters Gen. Eisenhower received at this time blamed him for the incident; every writer, without exception, including those who waxed hysterical in indignation, expressed a belief the Supreme Commander would handle the matter appropriately.)

a chance to ask Gen. Patton about the whole thing. He was at. Amilcar ' for lunch and a discussion of forthcoming. operSticks, Eh the time I arrived, e an e apparently, had . cluded any thik on. the #ubject and the lusty Seventh ' Army

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Arabs, animals with an Arab-like brutality. The over-all filth, which, seemed natural among the downtrodden Arabs of North Africa, was an |unpleasant surprise in- Sicily. Neither Ruth nor I had.any desire to go sightseeing.

» . ” RUTH AND I turned down the famous Patton 75, a suicidal highball of champagne, brandy, and possibly other disastrous mixtures. Lunch consisted of GI food and shop talk. And most of that shop talk cenfered around the distantly burning ears of Bernard Law Montgomery. Gen. Patton blamed Monty for the worst military sin in the Patton book of land warfare: Caution. ‘And he, used every word in a docker’s vocabulary-—apologiz-ing to us women with humorous regularity—to condemn that caution. :

his room and remarked with a smile. “Here's something you can

jump over there — how about it?”/thin box obviously “liberated” {somewhere in Sicily. Tearing at

probably use” Each of us grabbed, most uanladylike, at a

|the wrappers, we found a treasure more priceless than steak, diamonds, or perfume: Silk stockings. Before sending us back to Tunisia, the general acted as our guide to an old, old, medieval church—and, religious soul that he was beneath that flamboyant exterior, prayed humbly for his troops and his family.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Bizerte, jammed with half-sunken marked, “I always get in trouble ships, their masts spiking through/ with my gawdamned mouth!” At the water. As for the Sieilians/the same time, he shouted at the along the way — we agreed they/top of his squeak ice, “But If were dirtier, if possible, than the this sort of thing also treated theiriry go it again!” °

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