Evening star., 1946-01-10
General Warns
Army Paper on
|GI Criticism
Richardson Cautions
Stors and Stripes on
DemobiIizutionC CIumor
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
FRANKFURT tP.-High
American Army staff officers
tonight told representatives
of $4,000 soldiers protesting
delays in redeployment that
1--WE have commitments in
Europe and can not walk off
and leave them" More than
so GIs were summoned from
all Army units attached to
United States forces in Europe
after last nights protest DEM
onstration.
Earlier Story on Page A-4)
BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Jan. 10. - The
Honolulu edition of Stars and
Stripes, Army newspaper, drew
a stern warning today from the
general who has upheld it's out
spoken policy, as CT criticism OF
the demobilization program
f1ared anew throughout the
Pacific.
1t. Gen. Robert c. Richardson, jr.,
mid Pacific commander, cautioned
Stars and Stripes not to make any
discourteous references to the Presi-
dent, Secretary of War, chief of staff
or others in authority in the Army.
Although this Immediately was
termed military censorship by some
here, it was pointed out that Gen.
Richardson only was calling atten-
tion to the Articles of War, which
provide severe penalties for such
criticism.
Staff Held Responsible.
Nor is the paper to publish SOL
diers' letter which could be con-
struted as discourteous or deroga-
tory to authority.
The order holds the papers staff
strictly responsible and subject to
disciplinary action for violations,
but exempts news received by Stars
and Stripes from news services.
In Washington the War De-
partment had no immediate COM
ment on reports of Gen. Rich
ardson's statement to the Army
paper. The 62d Article of War
says: ANY officer who uses
contemptuous or disrespectful
words against the President, Vice
President, the Congress of the
United States, the Secretary of
War, or the Governor or Legisla-
ture of any State, Territory, or
other possession of the United
States in which he is quartered
shall be dismissed from the sery-
ice or suffer such other punish
ment as court-martial may di-
rect"
(Then, making the provision
applicable to all military person.
mel, the article says: ANY
other person subject to military
law who so offends shall be pun
lshed as court-martial may di-
rect"
(The SD Article also says that
"any person subject to military
law who behaves himself with
disrespect toward his superior Of
flcer shall be punished as a court
martial may direct"
Usurpation Charged.
In Tokyo, 26 members of the Pa
cific Stars and Stripes published
there charged that 1t had been
usurped in the "demobilization
crisis" and converted into a "house
organ for the War Department. F."
They charged that 1t. Col. James
Parks, officer in charge, broke
faith" by publishing without their
knowledge letter from, a radio
commentator who criticised soldiers
demanding quick discharge and re-
minded them that their buddies had
lost their lives in the war.
Other developments:
Manila-Thousands of soldier,
Whooped as they learned of Gen
Eisenhower's authorization for the.
ater commanders to send home any
men deemed not necessary to occu.
patton. TIA Harold Schiffrin, tenn.
porary chairman of demobilizatior
protest committee, said, Its a great
step forward and an intelligent one,
but that the committee would ADOPT
wait-and-see attitude before dis.
banding.
Seoul, Korea-Thousands of sol.
diers, at mass meeting, voci.
ferously but respectfully demanded
a congressional inquiry of the de.
mobilization showdown. I'VE can.
not understand the War Depart.
ments insistence on keeping an over.
sized peacetime army overseas un-
der present conditions" stated a
resolution. 1t. Gen. John R. Hodge
occupation commander, was present
to answer questions.
Honolulu-Five members of a con-
gressional committee studying Ha.
waits application for statehood at
tended a mass meeting of 10000 GIs
who roared their approval of a four
point demobilization speedup de-
mand.
Had Backed GI Board.
Gen. Richardson's order to Hon.
olulu Stars and Stripes came as a
surprise. The general previously had
supported the CT editorial board OF
enlisted men in its outspoken pol
icies.
In an editorial Tuesday, Stars ano
Stripes had pointed out discrepan-
cies in statements on demobiliza
ton emanating from the War De-
partment and asserted that Pacific
GIs, as result, were confused" and
did not know whom to believe. II
said that if men with two years
service were not released by March
20, as promised informally soms
(See HONOLULU, Page A-4.)