Army & Navy - MORALE: Afternoon in Peiping

From China came a steady trickle of evidence that the conduct of U.S. servicemen is not much better there than it has been in Europe (TIME, Nov. 19). TIME Correspondent William Gray reported last week:

Smashing up nightclubs is a fairly common occurrence in Shanghai. There are plenty of incidents: four sailors walking into a Hong Kong shop, grabbing seven bottles of vodka and walking out; a G.I. slugging a pedicab driver because he rang his bell behind him; G.I.s driving their Army vehicle through the window of a bar because they thought...

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