The high command of the U.S. Army faced with foreboding the vital but unpleasant job of overhauling its officer list. Its particular problem last week was: how to persuade the U.S. press not to arouse public emotion over officers relieved of commands.
During this week three National Guard division commanders were relieved. These orders were news. Many another officer of lesser rank got local publicity when he was turned out, went home feeling disgraced. Extreme result of one such instance: a veteran lieutenant colonel of the New Jersey National Guard, father of two volunteer non-commissioned officers, went home and killed...
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