Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if General Patton was in the wrong and did make a mistake, why couldn't he have been assigned to duty in the U.S. without all this smearing and mud-throwing? Why didn't the powers that be have him reassigned and then point out to the public that it was done to give him a rest? After all General Patton has been overseas for over three years with only a few days at home...
...General Patton is a great commander and an honest man. Every time that he has gotten into trouble with me public it has been because he stood up on his hind legs and told the truth. The truth always hurts...
...Donnell, was caught in an untruth, and had to eat his words. In his Capitol Stuff column, which goes to the News's 2,000,000 readers, a good part of them Jewish, O'Donnell had put forth his own version of why General George S. Patton Jr. had fallen from power and glory. Hinted O'Donnell darkly: a Jewish plot...
According to O'Donnell, the soldier Patton slapped in Sicily was Jewish. Somehow, not very clearly explained, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Sidney Hillman and White House Aide David K. Niles subsequently got the General's scalp...
This collection of innuendoes and untruths was hardly on the streets before mischief-mongering O'Donnell found himself caught, for once. The soldier Patton had slapped, Charles H. Kuhl, was not Jewish but of German descent. All of the Jewish leaders except Justice Frankfurter (who follows the court custom of ignoring press comment) issued denials...