PATTON INCIDENT
OFFICIAL REPORT DEMANDED PARENTS’ ADDED ANXIETY (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. The Senate’s Military Affairs Committee has decided to ask the Secretary of War, Mr H. L. Stimson, for an official report on the Patton incident, said Senator S. Downey. He explained that the committee desired the report in connection with President Roosevelt’s nomination of General Patton’s promotion to the permanent rank of major-general. General Patton is at present a temporary lieutenant-general, but his permanent rank is colonel. President Roosevelt’s recommendation was sent to the Senate on October 1. Representative C. B. Hoeven, a Republican, in the House of Representatives to-day demanded an investigation by the House Military Affairs Committee, pointing out that parents of boys in the service were already weighed do,wn by concern and now had added anxiety’“ wondering whether their sons are being abused by hardboiled officers. Perhaps we have too much blood and guts (Patton’s nickname) now.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25393, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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154PATTON INCIDENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25393, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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