U.S.A. AFFAIRS
SERVICEMEN AND CRIME
NEW YORK, March 21. “Ten million returned soldiers will create new problems in crime detection because men trained to kill will not slump back into the normal life they pursued before joining the Army,” said the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York (Mr E. E. Conroy). He added that some commandoes might become a particular danger- since they had been taught to kill skilfully and soundlessly and their ranks included a certain percentage who would normally become criminals. Now they were
Mr Conroy said that others who did not possess criminal instincts might be driven to utilise the technique of killing they had learned in the Army if they became victims of unemployment or other real or fancied ills. Most men where there was want reverted to the old type of savagery under which they took care of their own. The picture was not pleasant.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1944, Page 5
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