Secretary of War Stimson last week ordered the 25,000 Military Police now in service with the Army to be gathered into an independent corps. The Army hoped the members of the new outfit would be mellower than their predecessors in World War I, would behave like disciplinarians rather than martinets.
To the query "Who won the war?" the doughboys of World War I had a hoarsely derisive answer: "The M.P.s!" Given the thankless task of watching over troops on leave, rounding up stragglers during battle, the Military Police got in the soldiers' hair as...
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