ASUS PRISONERS IN UNITED STATES
CHARGES OF “CODDLING” TO RE INVESTIGATED (Rec. v 9.30;p.nj.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26i -Allegations that Axis prisoners of rWar in :the United States are being coddled will be investigated by the War Department and the Senate Military, Affairs Committee/ ■ : Complaints were recently made that Italians had been taken oh sight-seeing tours/Of.-New, York, and that both Germpns and Italians mingled with American ' Women in : towns adjacent to camps. . Matters came, to a head at Chandler, Arizona, near the Papago prison camp, when .German prisoners on . their wav ' to. work drove through the streets with a swastika banner flying above their truck .The American'officer in: charge, who 1 prevented, the police from removing- the banner, said all the police could do was 1 to make a report on the incident . Congressmen were immediately swamped with protests, and it was decidea tp. hold an inquiry. There>«were -300,000 Germans, 50,000 'ltalian*, and' 3000 Japaneee in Ameri-
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24503, 28 February 1945, Page 8
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