Evening star., 1946-12-02
Occupation Scandals Charged
In Suppressed Senate Report

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placements showed that about one
tenth we're not even high-grad
| morons."
Aware Of Problem.
Regarding Negro troops, Mr.
| Meader declares in his report that
| q major dificulty in Germany has
been the disproportionately large
number of Negro troops used in the
Army's occupation duties He
asserts that the War Department
| is fully aware of this problem, "but
| is reluctant to take any action to
correct it because of fear of politi-
cal repercussions from Negro
groups"
Mr.. Meader adds that Gen.
Joseph McNarney, United States
commander in Germany, holds the
| view that the War Department
should withdraw the Negro troops.
Gen. McNarney says he is at
tempting to get the Negro troops
into barracks as quickly as possible, .
Mr.. Meader reports. Most of the
troops live in requisitioned private
homes.) Gen. Clay suggested that
the Negroes might be used as parade
troops rather than service troops.
A large portion of the Negro troops
are being used as service troops,
principally as truck drivers.
This has resulted in their moving
freely and unsupervised among the
civilian population. 1t has also
resulted in their ready access to
Army supplies, which they have
used for the purpose of gaining
favor with frauleins. The latter
have been propagandized by Hitler
into psychology of moral laXness
and, in view of the food shortage,
are unusually receptive to the gen.
erosity of the Negro troops"
Disease Rate High.
Mr.. Meader reports an astounding
average venereal disease rate of 89f
per 1000 among the Negro troops.
In March of this year, he declares,
the figure scared to 1.049 per 1000.
1T is abvious from these figures, :"
he states, that some of these men
became infected more than once"
The committees counsel reports a
number of specific instances of mis-
conduct my Negro troops, Among
these is the following that occurred
in Wertinger, near Stuttgart:
About $50 Negro troops" says
Mr.. Meader, housed in private
dwellings, brought with them cer-
tain German women with whom
they had been fraternizing. The
first company, about half of the
total, brought 80 women. With
Military Government officers wink
ing their eyes the Negroes forced
the burgomeister to billet the frau
leins in local homes. Subse-
quently Military Government be-
came aroused about the venereal
disease rate and conducted a raid
They picked UP 54 girls, of whom
about "a were local. A check showed
that % of the 54 women had
venereal disease. Capt. woodward,
who reported this to me, went on
to say:
Woodward: After the raid the
troops took it upon themselves toi
accuse the local population of hav-
ing. instigated the raid. and then
they proceeded to nistreat the
burgomeister =. AS I recall, some |
Of the colored troops walked into
the home of the burgomeister and
accused him Of reporting the pres
ence of these women. and that be-
cause of this report we made the
raid. Without waiting for him to |
explain the matter they proceeded |
to beat him until his head was
badly swollen.
.Meader: What did they beat
him with?
Woodward: Their fists. We got |
the report from the police and went |
over Immediately. But the troops
were quiet by that time. We saw the
condition of the Burgomeister and
explained to him that we were TEN
dering our apologies for the conduct |
of the troops and would investi-
gate the matter fully when he was
well. But when. he recovered, he
would not talk or identify any of
the soldiers for fear of further mis-
treatment to himself and his towns
people.
"Meader: You don't know who
did it?
woodward: No."