The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-26

ems sake DON'T Ue1 IL 70 mel I'M a
newspaperman. NY business is get
ting news!"
Well what to do about Gen, Pat
ton2 :. Demove him from eoMhatp
:. Bring him back here to train
menP think that Gen Pat
ton viii never live 1t down :
Every mother still must writhe in
agony wondering If her son is mis-
treated by officers Mothers al
ways see their grown sons as little,
frightened Children, suddenly awak-
ened In the dark, crying "moMmyl"
=. Every parent must have tossed
all Sunday night after hearing about
this shocking story BY the time
it reaches overseas it win be dis
torted Can't you hear them
saying: did you hear about a Gen.
eral kicking sick soldier IN the
face? Yeh2 He Knocked him cold
and then shot him deadp It viii
get wilder even though thet rue
story is sickening enough =,
What might happen is that some
soldier will lose his bean one dark
night in battle and shoot Patton,
We have met many fine high
ranking officers Gentlemen, all
of them Some of them, how
ever, have fallen for the flattery Of
certain newspapermen and have
gone hammy That's the trouble
They actually believe what
they read about themselves
Patton has had considerable atten~
tention in the papers and newsreelS
-. Picturesque" Is the word usual
~ given him That isn't what
many parent calls him today ~
AS Gen. Pershing said only recent
ly to war correspondent Leland
Stowe: This Is talking war. Too
many generals talk too muehw :.
Pershing rarely talked to serlbes or
anyone In the last war We are
reminded of great fighting man
Vice-Admiral Jonas p. IN.
gram, Commander OF the South At.
lantic Force You rarely SEQ
his name In print He won't
allow his men to write about his
deeds Just leave me out OF
it," he told his reporter o year ago.
I'm not one of those Generals who
carries his press agent with himl"
=. AT the time he refused TO al
low q public relations man there.
H ever we encountered o fighting
navy man, Admiral ingram Is II,
A huge sailor, whose, tones are
basSo, but who Is easy TO talk to
when he hasn't subs to sink :.
More than Patton or anyone we've
met In uniform, ingram rates the
term picturesque ). There Is
none Of the Show-off In his make
UP II understand" he once
said jocularly, that my men call
me a soandSo, and, gahdammlt, I
like til" In the last few days
we've run into servieemen who were
depressed over "Old Blood and
Cuts" Pattons horrible pet name.
-. eyes" said one, ''our blood and
his gutsl'
We want to correct an item con-
corning Dorothy Thompson II
was said that she was sentimental
about Germany because she hoped
to be the first woman Ambassador
there after the war and that she
was making such plans already" a.,
The story Is q canard Apparently
planted by her enemies or enemy
agents It Is true that Germans
here suggested II to her many times,
but her retort has always BEEN
God forbid"
insiders discussed the Windsorg
and de Marigny One revealed
the cause for the rift between them
>. 1t appears that some time
ago the de Marignys received iii In.
vitation to q party Mt the Windsor
house Were not going dc
Marigny is supposed to have tact
lessly said publicly. I'VE have Our
own friends for q party and don't
want to be bothered" This must
be on old one, but what matter? ....
Congressman Chas. Eaton was asked
why in the Senate the committee
Is called Foreign Relations" and
in the House 1t liz known as Foreign
Affairs" 1.-THE Senate" Eaton
Is supposed TO have replied, us too
old TO have affairsl"
The owl tells the column that It's
conductor was denounced III on Of
ficia1 Nazi propaganda broadcast
from Berlin via y. N. B. on Nov
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