Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and the U.S. people talked things over last week, finally decided they had better trust each other. ''The Patton affair" (see p. 69) became a test for the democratic maturity of both...
...colonel in command of the hospital saw no use in making a report "through channels" to General Patton himself. But he promised to back up the correspondents who questioned the many witnesses. One of them wrote a full report, sent it to General Eisenhower. General "Ike" acted immediately. He sent a general officer to Sicily in a special plane the day he received the report...
When the investigating officer confirmed the report, Eisenhower wrote Patton a slashing rebuke. Patton was ordered to apologize publicly to the patients concerned, to the staff of the hospital, and to make a clean breast of the affair to the staff officers of each division of his command. He was told bluntly that he was on probation...
...Great Nervous Tension." At first Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers denied the whole story. Then came an official confirmation of the incident and an announcement that General Patton had apologized...
...When these things are happening," General Patton said, "a commanding general is under great nervous tension. He may do things he may afterward regret. I know a great many people regard me as a - - --. . . . I dealt harshly with a couple of soldiers and was wrong...