GENERAL MARK CLARK
QUESTION OF PROMOTION (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 11. General Mark Clark needlessly threw away gallant lives in Italy, declared Senator Tom Connally after hearing the evidence of five colonels before the Senate Military Committee inquiring into General Clark’s fitness for promotion to the permanent rank of major-general, says the American Associated Press. The colonels, who served with the 39th Division, which suffered heavy casualties at the Rapido River in 1944, told the committee that General Clark throughout the Italian campaign had demonstrated his unfitness for promotion. Colonel Ainsworth said General Clark had ordered the Rapido River assault against the advice of his subordinate officers. Witness added that in fighting against promotion for General Clark they were fighting not the individual alone but the powerful military system in which efficiency and capability were discarded for seniority and classmates’ control.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26177, 13 June 1946, Page 5
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