National Affairs: The Shame & Glory . . .

Navy Chaplain Otto Sporrer had been with the Marines long enough to decide that no one else is quite so good a fighting man as a marine, had confirmed his conclusion in Korea. Like many another serviceman, he also had some white-hot observations to make on the inadequacies of fighting men in other outfits. Unlike most, Chaplain Sporrer, a Roman Catholic priest, got his accusations into print in an unsigned article (title: "The Shame and Glory of Korea") in the California newsmagazine Fortnight. Last week copies of Fortnight began popping up all over the...

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