OFFICIAL DENIAL
REPORT ABOMT GEN. PATTON
LONDON, November 22. . An official statement was issued today- from Allied headquarters in Jtfbrth Africa about Major-General Patton, following allegations made by ah American radio commentator that tje was involved in a scene in a military hospital in Sicily. _ * The statement says: "General Patton '' 5s commanding the Seventh Army, and ~has commanded it since it was activated, and is continuing to command -it No report has ever reached this -headquarters of any soldier refusing - to obey an order by 'General Patton. General Patton has never been reprimanded at any time by General Eisenhower, or anybody else in this theatre.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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105OFFICIAL DENIAL Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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