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...Volunteers had almost no discipline. Early in the war, "the depots and bases filled with whores, sutlers, and gamblers, were already a continuous jamboree and vicious with crime." One Maryland regiment "suffered attrition from delirium tremens." A Kentucky regiment had to be "ordered to the rear in disgrace, for rape...
...fellow while soldier, race prejudice continues in the Army, principally from men of Southern origin. Australians, encountering the American Negro for the first time, met him on equal ground an said, "We were told by white American soldiers that all Negroes are cannibals, illiterates, savages, and that they will rape our women. We were told that all Negroes were ragged and diseased." The English, too, were surprised at the racial prejudices in the American Expeditionary Force, and from pub to Parliament have criticized this "American...
...acquitted hero, having shaken hands with his twelve saviors, turned to the world at large and cleared his throat. "My confidence now has been justified in essential American justice," announced Enrol Flynn, "I really mean it. . . ." The jury had just acquitted him on three counts of statutory rape. He added: "I've got to get my health back. [He is 4-F in the draft.] Then I've got a military mission in Europe. Nope, I just can't tell what it is all about...
More embarrassing to Ed Flynn than anything which took place in Washington was the fact that 3,000 miles away another Flynn-impulsive Cinemactor Errol-was also undergoing a personal ordeal (for rape). To Ed Flynn's annoyance, accounts of the two inquisitions continued to pop up side-by-side in the nation's press. Most amusing mélange of the two stories appeared in the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald, a small weekly of 2,000 circulation, edited by the wife of Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Said the Herald, in a front-page jingle titled Flynnlandia...
...hours it looked as if Errol Flynn's trial for statutory rape was about to come to a premature end. Alleged rapee Betty Hansen had told her intimate story in court. Admiring women had ogled Flynn in court and begged his autograph. Then a bombshell was exploded by the prosecution in accusing two jurors (women) of using fraud and deceit in their eagerness to get on the jury-concealing the fact that they had already made up their minds about the case. But after a conference the judge dismissed one juror and ordered the case to go on-saving...