Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Harry Vaughan has seen fit to make an unwarranted, unjust, and wholly unintelligent criticism of the Protestant chaplains of the United States Army [TIME, Sept. 10]. If General Vaughan were merely expressing his personal opinion as a private citizen his remarks could and should be ignored. But this is not the case. General Vaughan occupies an official position, and his remarks are open to the interpretation of being official Army opinion...
...General Vaughan seems to think that when chaplains are sent into the Army by a bishop (as is the case with Roman Catholic chaplains), this will insure the selection of only men of the highest type. I have had a wide acquaintance with Roman Catholic chaplains in the Army and have found them in every case to be men with whom I have been proud to be associated. I have not found them any more devoted to their work or efficient in the discharge of their duties than Protestant chaplains are. There are superior Catholic chaplains and inferior ones. There...
...light grey suit and soft tan hat he was off from the White House at 8:40 a.m., behind a motorcycle escort. His car companions: Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, former presidential press secretary Steve Early (now of Pullman Co.), Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, gabby Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's aide...
...General Vaughan compared his boss with President Roosevelt. "It's just like having a fancy dinner of caviar over a long period," he said. "But sometimes you like to get back to ham and eggs...
...Garrulous Man." But the greater part of the General's talk was devoted to the Potsdam Conference. "We were delayed the first day," said Historian Vaughan. "The story was that Churchill was a day late at Yalta and Stalin had to get even and be a day late at Potsdam. The Conference . . . was held at the Cecilienhof, the palace of the crown princes. It was beautifully furnished. I suppose all those furnishings are now three-fourths of their way to Moscow...