Army headquarters in Paris announced that "lack of shipping" would slow up redeployment by a month. Impatient, homesick G.I.s hit the ceiling. In the office of Stars & Stripes the angry staff members wrote and printed a letter that would surely have been censored if it had been sent to the composing room as an editorial.
The letter pointedly asked if the delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The...
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