ARMY & NAVY
After two months of closed-door hearings, Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle's six-man investigating board delivered its report to the War Department on the cause & cure of the Army's "caste system." Its 53 pages and 10,000 words boiled down to a diagnosis which surprised no one: the roots of the disease were 1) poor leadership; 2) an excessive official and social gap between officers and men.
Most of the witnesses' fire had been concentrated on the small body of officers "inherently unqualified or inadequately trained," who popped up inevitably in an Army swollen fortyfold in wartime. As a remedy, the board...
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